Artist statement

I use ‘self-made’ photographs of my head as a model for my drawings. My drawings are not about who I am or how I feel, but rather about what I want to see in myself; the type that I want to represent. I have to be able to recognise that in the photographs I make and in the purpose of the drawings that I make based on those photographs. This means that I am constantly creating new characters, new versions of myself in abstract portraits. I am a housewife, student, mother, lesbian, sportswoman, secretary, girl, diva, etc. The further the drawing becomes removed from the starting point – the model photograph – the more interesting it becomes for me. Can I also look like this?