In my graduation work, titled Figures and Spaces, I experimented with the distortion and juxtaposition of traditions and methods of spatial representation. This became interesting to me mainly because of the contradictory relationship between traditional representational methods of landscape and the contemporary alienation of people from their environment, and from reality in general. In each of the 12 paintings that make up the installation, the relationship between the figure and the space around them is distorted: the texture of idyllic landscapes is torn up, the utopian spaces become empty, human figures melt uncomfortably, trying to move forward while capable only of weightless floating. The illusion of spatiality within the image stretches like rubber in some places, while in others the depth of the landscape is merged into the grid of the map of itself.