“For me creating artworks began with the medium of photo montage. I started working with photographs clipped from magazines, newspapers or books and I have been experimenting with combining them with ink, coffee or acrylic paint. These private visions created by this method dominated the years I spent in the UK and are still part of the most employed pictorial expressions I like to use today. My pieces from these years are notable for their focus on psychological problems shown from a female point of view.These collages, created with raw honesty and intimate sensibility, are inspired mostly by first-hand experiences of being an immigrant in a different culture. Disorienting photographs, and overlapping papers mixed with paint gives me the strongest tool of expressing the sometimes chaotic, hopeless and confused feelings of living in a different country far away from your roots and your loved ones. I have found collage the best way to communicate how it feels to move into uncertainty, a completely unknown place.My collages attempt to visualise the feelings accompanying the constant challenges of starting from zero without knowing anyone, the continuous sensation of falling apart, the loss of identity and the reconstruction of the self into a new, stronger being. Reborn, strengthened by many layers glued on top of each other, but still having the hurting, torn edges of scars in my soul.”