Perhaps one could say that visions are never too large and dreams are never too small. Those who dream expand their vision, entering into a universe different from everyday life and the phases (supposedly awake) beyond sleep.

This is also how Oziel’s images about dreams should be understood. They offer new perspectives – in his paintings, we can see more than the familiar.

In his painting, Oziel often follows the impulses of his emotional world – the brush is guided by his innermost self, so to speak. At times, he also realizes in his works the dreams he has at night, during sleep.

The subconscious becomes visible – as has often happened in painting. Countless artists, from Dürer and Raphael to Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich, and Chagall, have explored the theme of dreams. Oziel’s paintings, however, are abstract (although everyone is invited to recognize concrete things). Nevertheless, he does not follow the Symbolist representations of the 19th and 20th centuries, which depicted very popular dreamlike themes.

He follows his own dreams. This is what connects Oziel’s work: his paintings open up to diverse interpretations – after all, each viewer has their own worlds of dream and personal perspectives.