A few years ago, I spent an unforgettable week fasting and meditating under the guidance of my old friend and fellow Yerevan artist, Achot Achot. It was an experience that not only transformed me physically, leading me out of health problems related to a personal dilemma, but awakened me spiritually. This transformative experience has been with me ever since, particularly in my paintings.

I strive to recreate, through painting, the insight that I gained then: that the visible and invisible, the tangible and intangible, the material and the spiritual are, ultimately, interconnected. When I pick up a brush now, and relax my mind, the brush seems to "take over," leaving me to humbly accept what it reveals before my eyes.

Now, whenever the sunlight illuminates my canvas, I sense both an invitation as well as a desire to become part of it.