Max Hikm

As a painter, I study the psychology of color to trace how it affects a person's emotions, general psycho-emotional state, and, consequently, their quality of life and the environment around them. My paintings are suspended between figuration and abstraction, committing to neither completely. Drawing from a personal perspective and my own reception of color, I register mood swings and emotional shifts influenced by the intrusion of historical contexts and global events we find ourselves in. However, my work is not a direct commentary on current news. My choice of a semi-abstract idiom is based on a profound desire to stop filling the visual environment with forgettable, topical imagery. Instead, I view my paintings as totems and transmitters of energy meant to inspire a re-evaluation of emotional states and recharge the psyche through color perception.