Realized as part of an exhibition project, these 3 images (Bucharest Blue/Yellow/Red) are in fact fake memories of Bucharest, sewn together from bits of actual places, fantastic novels I have read a long time ago and a feeling of nostalgic longing, inexplicable as the actual city has somehow failed me...

Book illustrator and comic strip author, Maria describes her professional journey as a blend between the timeless stories read in childhood, various French book illustrations and her studentship years at the University of Art and Design from Cluj.

She defines herself as a Darkroom, simultaneously nostalgic and pragmatic, transforming her own memories, sensations and feelings into pictures. Thus, she combines the playful pseudo-realism of childhood, the tenderness and the militant poetry of the adolescent and a subtle spirituality of the post-modern adult.

www.mariasurducan.com