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In his interview with Lodie Robinson, Skunder offers us an important description of his work:
In all my work, color is never a mere simulacrum of nature, but is used to illuminate, to create super imposed dimensions of form and shape, which in turn enables the viewer to first see the painting as a unit, then as a simultaneous breaking up of images, and finally as a recognition of the identities, for vision has no contour. Each viewer may thus see an endless number of images, according to his individual disposition; the images seen one day may have intermingled to form new images the next day, or even to have silently disappeared. One must mystically interpret my paintings, for they translate reality by using images of the non-real. And for this reason, in my best paintings, the figures seem to have emerged by themselves from the canvas, instead of having merely been placed there. Painting for me is not an artificial construction of relationships craftily imposed upon an exterior world. For me the meaning of my paintings is found in the expression of an inarticulated sound from within, a message for the viewer.
Skunder’s comments about his art might be read as an ars poetica or an artist statement. Whatever the case, the...