To me the purpose of my art is to keep imagination alive, in a world that is highly dominated by automation, electronification, economization, exploitation and consumerism. I see my art as an antidote against dehumanization, superficiality, mental shallowness and existential ignorance.

My art is autobiographical, but not in a literal way. Many works and various concepts are related to personal experiences and phases I went through in time. In a way my work reflects my view on myself, on society and the sheer fun and discomfort, also, that comes with creating art. All in all the personal is just the starting point in my work, in effort to address the more universal aspects of life. My work is an invitation to the viewer, to enter into a dialogue with the work and oneself. People, of course, reflect on my work from their own personal standpoint and taste.

I have long been working with old materials and things I found in the streets, which I assembled into autonomous objects, usually small in size, but rich in presence. After years of working in that particular way, I took up drawing and painting again, for that provided me a shorter circuit of attention, as to where the assembled works had been keeping my mind scattered all over the place. So nowadays the emphasis in my work lies on drawing and painting. Nevertheless, I occasionally pick up things, when they are artworks in themselves already or have the definite potential to be transformed into art.

I often think of my work as unorthodox iconography, for my intention is to create ‘alive’ works of art. I wish the presence of ‘being’ to resound in my art. For that matter I usually keep my work at a sketchy level, because, in my opinion, aesthetics followed out too far leads to lifelessness, the spark of life gets closed off and the work suffocates.

I look for space in the relative solidity of reality, within the arrangement of phenomena. In that space a new association, a new meaning, a new cosmos, a new experience can be found or created.

The work is mentality
The work is consciousness
The work is being with “being”