Art on paper / Paper art
I am captured by the intangible and immaterial. When I am outside I feel one with nature. A mystical experience; to be part of something bigger than myself. From my impressions and experiences of being outdoors, I compose a landscape all my own, paying attention to organic structures and the dynamics of wind, water and light.
My work has evolved in recent years from drawings, through collages, to spatial work. At the base is the graphic quality of drawing; ink, charcoal or pencil on paper.
Collages
For my collages I use 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 accumulation of time, reuse of drawings, even my own history as an artist is compressed in them. Time is a space, just like the landscape.
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.
Sculptures
When I make sculptures, I use large pieces of paper from a roll that I pre-finish with textures. By folding and modeling with the paper, forms arise that I call “cosmic ornaments”: paper sculptures that are mysterious and abstract, but also tangible and earthy. They give form to experiences for which there are no words.
Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe. (Les Murray)
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.
