ROSS FUEL

Ross Fuel born 1994 in Baku, Azerbaijan at the turn of the eras of fallen socialism and nascent capitalism. Moved to Israel in 2009 where later studied Performance and Acting Arts in "Elad Theater". In the last year of studying Ross stopped studies in reason of the pandemic and lockdown. Locked in his apartment without any option to perform and act on stage and without finding a place Ross started to look for other ways to release his creative energy. That's what he says about it: "Suddenly, on an intuitive level, I began to draw with pastel that I found at home, simply re-drawing the surrounding reality. One day a message comes to me from the depths of my consciousness: "Start learning to draw", accompanied by an unbearable desire to postpone everything I was doing at that time and draw. Immediately I found a course and plunged into the process, improving my skills day by day." Ross uses skills received during acting study and creates a large amount of his pieces during performances. Inspired by travelling, cultures and experiences that he acquires, whether it is a hike in the mountains, a shamanic ceremony, a music festival, a theatrical performance or simple conversation with positive people. And of course movement, movement, movement... That's how Ross explains his vision: "Namely - the movement that led me to do what I am doing and developing now - the genre of Gonzo art. As a youngster who had just crossed the threshold of adulthood and gained the opportunity to move independently around the world, while hitchhiking in Europe and hiking long days in the mountains and forests, I read books by such masters of the pen as Jack Kerouac and Hunter Thompson. What inspired me most about them was their courage to throw themselves into unknown situations and convert it with incredible enthusiasm into gorgeous manuscripts, often literally written on their knees in the thick of unimaginable things. Apparently even then I registered deep in my subconscious, that eternal search for drive and adventurism, and handover it through my art. Most of my pieces were created, literally in the first hours, and sometimes during all those experiences described above, under the influence of the first emotions and at the peak of hormones after all. " In May 2022 Ross relocated to Bangkok to find inspiration by exploring movement through Muay Thai