Personal Statement

My work? A dive. It's about looking beyond the visible. To drag secrets, the invisible to light, even those that defy understanding. A puzzle that can never be completely solved.

Without immediately evaluating, without judging, without the constant stream of commentary that puts everything in a box. It's the pause between the beats, everything is connected to everything else, like a giant spider’s web of invisible threads. My work is deeply rooted in the elements of nature - wind, fire, water, earth - which I grew up with as a child. These elements are inextricably linked. Because in the end, everything is connected. Everything.

When you realize that, your view inwards becomes sharper.

A tweet, a discarded piece of plastic, a misused word. The art you see, the music you hear, the news you receive - they didn't just fall from the sky. They are products of people, of stories, of history. When we understand this connection, we understand that we are not just isolated atoms floating through a vacuum. We are part of a whole, whether you like it or not. Context ist he key, the background noise, the deep hum that tells you where something comes from and where it's going. Without context, everything is just noise, a chaotic soup of pixels. With context, it becomes a story, a drama, something that makes sense – or at least tries to make sense. Mindfulness, connection – these are not empty words for self-help gurus. These are the tools we need to avoid drowning in the digital fog and to keep our eyes on the goal: life in all its raw, imperfect, pulsing beauty.

That’s why I weave the "dirty" and the "shiny": old fabrics, newspaper prints, wood, paper, cardboard, string, oil and pigments. In this way, the boundaries between art and life become blurred as I (patiently) build up layer upon layer. The result is a complex web of textures and stories that gives me the freedom to link different realities together. Completely new, freely interpretable meanings emerge. The subtle understanding of opposites is what life is all about. The most important of these are the serious, the weighty things, and they logically lie on the ground.

Ultimately, I have no interest in things that I completely understand. Knowing that I have stumbled upon the right thing is more important than understanding. There are truths that lie beneath the surface of the images, truths that only show themselves sporadically, like northern lights in the winter sky. 

What we do not feel, we forget.