I’m drawn to everything that feeds my five senses. They are the connection to the world. They are the world.
Unlike most artists these days I am not at all interested in involving politics into art.
On the contrary. I seek freedom, independence, almost the absence of any politics.
Freedom does not mean randomness, coincidence or excessiveness. What I mean by freedom is the enhancement oft he aesthetic sensitivity.
In order to find new forms, rhythms, and compositions I let the different mediums influence each other. For example, I may take a photo from a painting and use it as part of a composition on the computer. This line of work, in turn, has influence on the painting process. I compare it to improvisation in jazz. You have to know your material really well. And then you have to let go.
A picture evolves in the head of a viewer. Every viewer will see something else, depending on his or her culture, origin and experience.
I want to feed the visual senses of a viewer. Life and therefore the world is complicated and irritating at times. So are my pictures. But there is also rhythm and rhyme in all the mess. I hope the viewer will find inspiration, attentiveness, stimulation, and beauty.
Making pictures is play.
Play is anarchy.
Anarchy is freedom.
Everything else is politics.
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