My work evolves around my personal search for the definition of space. From my perspective, space is a collection of coherent moments of which our emotions form the boundaries and our feelings dictate the outcome of our actions. Therefor I preserve certain moments in my sculptures, installations and photographs, sometimes more permanently than others, using different materials to suit the concept at hand. This complex dialogue between an intense thought and feeling, form and material, doesn't happen overnight. It takes a certain incubation time to form the ideas into a solid structure which, in my case, looks plain and simple. In my opinion it is the intensity of a clear form that has the most impact on space.

The startingpoint for a new work often finds its origin in visual or mental reality for my exploration in the abstract. My work is a rehabilitation process of certain structures and labels. Changing their behaviour allows me to seek new domains and properties. This self-referring provocation is a dual development for both creator and created. 'Separation' and 'Unity' both voluntarily, compulsory or by pressure, play an important role in my work. Many of the artworks discuss matters of increasing or decreasing distance.

Recent sculptures investigate spaces and structures with close resemblences with both primitive and contemporary architecture. Especially spaces with a profound cathedralesque character in combination with a very ’silent nature’, are the red line that I’m following at the moment and translating into form.




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