Maya Chachava

"I believe in the process of self-development and subsequent expansion of visual ideas. In that regard my work is influenced by things that surround me both physically and mentally.  When I enter my studio, my main objective is to get fully engaged in the piece I am making and not to think about the final outcome. I try to use the inherent properties of the chosen medium and attend to formal issues. If and when I am successful in executing both- my work becomes infused with expressive quality and meaning.  As I paint I always try to search for a mid realm, alternative explanation or belief, where imagination is taken seriously, though not literally.  There are questions that I ask myself constantly as a person and as an artist: Where does reality end and imagination begin? What and how can memories of the past and visions of the future be retained and expressed, since all I really have is the present moment?   As I look back at the work that I made 10 years ago- I realize that everything was there at some point and my perception of Self, contained within Time, was and is circular in nature. It is manifesting itself as a spiral that is constantly in motion, pushing forward, circling back on itself, with no beginning and no end.  Although most of my paintings have titles, they are never preconceived apriori. The title emerges at the very end when there is nothing else I can add or take away."