Artist’s
statement
I often think about the explorers of the old days, the ones who traveled in worlds where anything could be found. Before everything is discovered and defined, the boundaries and rules are loose and fluid between the possible and the impossible, reality and unreality. I try to approach that magical point in what ever I may create, where the only limitation is the imagination. A magical realism where the house that balances on a tiny piece of plank will never fall, as long as I don’t want it to. It is a world where reality is still about to be discovered and defined.
My creative process usually starts with a form or a feeling based on which the details will be more like whimsical incidents. It’s like a journey that we embark on together, the artwork and I.
I love to travel and document the adventures through photography and drawing. At every opportunity, I have headed out into the world to explore it. When I come back home I try to summarize and tell a story about the world, to process the experiences and to try to understand it.
What it comes down to is the scale shift of the big and the small: how everyday events go parallel with the eras that endlessly replace each other like waves of the great seas.
I try to find the flashes of true light: anything and everything that catches the eye or gets a grip of my heart — which rarely turn out to be the things we first think of — and tell the stories about them.