Artist Statement

When I work in a series it is to repeatedly test my motives and
responses with one particular structure of device. The elements that
begin to come to life, appear to have grown there or somehow appear
self-determined. The still life is just an excuse, I'm trying to
put myself within it and to be coherent. I don't have a
destructive spirit, I'm just stirring things up.
Using simple every day objects I can concentrate on my techniques
and visual devices to construct my images. By drawing or painting
directly on the canvas, I overlap my images, either by painting over
them, sewing other pieces of canvas over them (in free form shapes
that are filled with cotton). The bulges that appear are made by
chance, I observe until images appear. A paint stroke or a
position of one of the bulges can completely change the sense
of my painting.
What interests me in still life is to work with it as organic
material, to feel it as pure material. These new surfaces are
then painted over with new images, creating a depth and excited
visual surface, that is almost like sculpture-and when viewed
from the sides, the image has an abstract or cubist feeling
to them.
By trying different renderings I can get to the saturation of the
still life. Each piece leads me to a new bit of knowledge, a slight
expansion of my vocabulary, one stage in the development of a
personal philosophy.