I am captured by the intangible and immaterial. A mystical experience; when I am outside I feel one with nature. This experience is the inspiration for my work.
Mysticism is not only about a sense of unity, but also about a meaning that shows silence, space and nature. A deeper layer of visible reality; everyday things can be seen with different eyes. An image can connect the invisible with the visible, the moment with infinity.
For ten years now, I focus on drawing and work on paper: charcoal, ink, crayon and other, all black and white. I’m balancing between letting the image grow by accident and controlling the way it will become. In recent works I use old drawings to make new works of art. Collages and small sculptures; upcycling unfinished works, using a collection of years that was just waiting in a drawer. The time put into these works not wasted, but invested into something new, creating extra condensed and intense collages.
The structures of the old drawings are like ready-made colors and lines in my own handwriting. The old drawings are glued together and cut off again, making layers visible, like layers of an excavated mound or quarry; the deeper layers, physical, but in the work also immaterial and symbolic. The layers show time; the accumulation of times, reuse of drawings, even my own history as an artist is compressed in them. Time is a space, just like the landscape.
on instagram:, recent works
Mysticism is not only about a sense of unity, but also about a meaning that shows silence, space and nature. A deeper layer of visible reality; everyday things can be seen with different eyes. An image can connect the invisible with the visible, the moment with infinity.
For ten years now, I focus on drawing and work on paper: charcoal, ink, crayon and other, all black and white. I’m balancing between letting the image grow by accident and controlling the way it will become. In recent works I use old drawings to make new works of art. Collages and small sculptures; upcycling unfinished works, using a collection of years that was just waiting in a drawer. The time put into these works not wasted, but invested into something new, creating extra condensed and intense collages.
The structures of the old drawings are like ready-made colors and lines in my own handwriting. The old drawings are glued together and cut off again, making layers visible, like layers of an excavated mound or quarry; the deeper layers, physical, but in the work also immaterial and symbolic. The layers show time; the accumulation of times, reuse of drawings, even my own history as an artist is compressed in them. Time is a space, just like the landscape.
on instagram:, recent works
