Artist statement

My sculptures represent touch, sensuality and imperfection that needs to be protected.

I hide my vulnerabilities and emotions in my sculptures. In this way I try to protect them against the outside world. My thoughts are ordered through the use of materials like fabric, glass, plaster and polyurethane foam.

I treat my works as arrangements. Sometimes it’s necessary to remove, hide or fade certain parts to emphasize the vulnerability of the body in the sculpture. The outcome is a sculpture which seems to exist on its own.

A new creature emerges, exposed; at the same time it remains concealed from its surroundings. In my wall-objects I try to register the ‘non-moment’ on two pieces of transparent fabric stitched together with a seam in the middle that acts as a horizon. This material is partly see-through. The paint is layered on top of the fabric and the backside of the transparent cloth is just as important to the painting as the front.

Photography helps me to freeze the fast changing landscape that I see as I am speeding by in my car. With oil paint I convert the dynamic of this snapshot onto the transparent fabric.