Game of the unconscious, the conscious, the self of the artist… ideas, facts, events, acts, nudes, characters… transform, metamorphose, and take on other dimensions. The sketches are already in thousands… This creative act is a pastime for the artist painter Joseph Matar, for whom time is also the work of the Creator. For Joseph Matar, wasting time is a malicious act. Joseph Matar has never known rest, laziness, leisure, wastefulness…

Wasting time is a serious sin, a sin against “oneself,” against one’s future, one’s thoughts… Out of a hundred studies, only one or perhaps fewer may see the light of day and become a pictorial poem in the form of a two-dimensional canvas…

These studies we see are made in a few minutes. Turning them into works requires sleepless nights, in-depth studies, research, love and willpower, expertise, ability, purity of soul, sincerity, and cultural, human, and sentimental capital. Many attempts, desires, and passions assume this elaboration.

William Matar – Correspondence – Mail from Paradise