As a Rome-based artist with Bulgarian origins, I have witnessed radical changes in my country and Eastern Europe. This experience and my intensive travel these past twenty years, due to my husband’s work at the UN, have shaped up my multicultural, conceptual, contemporary artist identity. Conversely, I come from a small traditional community of weavers and livestock breeders, deeply connected to nature. This has helped me explore techniques in designing empirical color schemes and organic forms. Growing up, I mastered the customary process of creating art through a direct hands-on approach, without formal training, and admired the power of teamwork.

Adhering to this method, and adapting dynamic scaling and map modeling, I have established my own direct hands-on approach to creating harmonious artworks. Notable examples include my open-ended project with found objects “Random Walks of Happiness” and my recent collaborative projects involving rhythmic repetition of marks created by found objects or scribbling. My goal in these interactive projects is for participants to grasp color theory and art principles with a direct approach without formal instruction. By facilitating a firsthand, simple understanding of the media characteristics and the interaction of colors and forms, many people can collaborate. These projects encapsulate spontaneous emotional mechanistic drawings, resembling childish-like scribbles, devoid of preconceived thoughts, self-criticism, or figurative design.