Art on paper / Paper art
I work on paper with charcoal, ink, crayon and other, all black and white. Using these drawings I make collages and sculptures. I’m balancing between letting the image grow and controlling the way it will become. Collages and sculptures; upcycling unfinished works, using 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 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. The layers show time; the accumulation of times, reuse of drawings, even my own history as an artist is compressed in them. Time is a space, just like the landscape.
The collages have become more spatial, like sculptures. They are mysterious objects reminiscent of earth, minerals and landscape. I call them “cosmic ornaments”; they seem to come from another world or time.
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. This experience is the inspiration for my work.
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.
