Abstract
The purpose of this investigation is to provide an insight on what I try to convey in my artwork. I will discuss the reasons why abstraction interests me, and how it may potentially influence the experiences of the audience. The viewers are addressed with regard to how abstract art can qualify their lives. Since my work is anchored on assumptions about the reasons why I utilize chance, or randomized procedures as a starting point for generating images, such conjectures will be stated and clarified. Bearing in mind that confidence in non-rationality has been present to varying degrees in the works of Dadaists, Surrealists, Abstract Expressionists, and in the art of the followers of the Fluxus movement in both Europe and in the United States, a review of literature will include books and commentaries of scholars who, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, dedicated their time to the study of aleatory procedures as present in many artistic undertakings. The exploration of the art of chance in painting, metaphorically symbolic of alchemy, points to the work of Carl Jung, who proposed allegories and theories of the psyche. The discussion of the art of chance finishes and simultaneously opens the doors for further examination of the theme.