"The figures and symbols which appear in my paintings acquire personal meaning only upon their completion. Sketched in a deaf and blind manner, the paintings speak their own languages after they are finished. The figures which come up in the frame of plastic components and compositions I intentionally do not forsake sometimes appear with their masks. Other times, they show the courage to catch the eyes of their creator. Figures with their deformed faces are the ones I myself lack the courage to look in the eye.
I meet you with a direct artistic stance which denies any simple reading. Thus, I believe you could also sense the smell of the agonies which haunted me throughout the creation process."
Mert Yavasca -2013
