Colored Pencil on Black Paper
2019

Ruxa’s text paintings and text drawings are a reflection of how the brain interprets visual perception. One does not actually ‘see’; the human eye does not have any form of consciousness or ability to perceive an image by itself. It is the brain that receives stimulus from the eye and reacts by creating a mental interpretation, a picture. As such, an image is full of words, like a text is full of images. There is no physical difference between a text and a picture. The artist became fascinated by this and thus wondered whether a text would already be a subject on its own, an object, a picture. To him, text paintings and drawings are the same as all his other paintings just without concrete representations – they are all projections of a picture in the brain.