My Box, ‘Mettre dans une armoire ou dans un tiroir’ 2010, in the livingroom of Franka Wolke, an artist living in Breda, after a great conversation about the art in our life.
I see my practice as an everlasting process that starts in the studio with colour, form and materials which are my first inspiration where all experiments start and from where objects grow. The studio has an important place in my practice, it is a node where all inputs that I collect from outside can click together. I see it as a conversation in between objects and in between me and these objects. I like ‘the object’ generally because it is moveable, portable and changeable. The object can be used in infinite combinations, and each combination can tell a different story. The object is an important vehicle because it delivers me conversations and questions in order to reflect on what I want to tell. All these questions are the motivation in my research of what art can be and how it can be translated. Questions brings to me a lot of doubt. I believe that this doubt will bring me to projects I could never get if I would know where I would go. These projects can be anything like a book, a picture, an object, an action that suddenly is there without being prepared or planned.
In this constantly changing process I believe it is interesting to find different ways of presenting my work, it brings me again to new questions. In a presentation I try to find the right balance in what I want to tell, between the context of the presentation and my reaction to that context. I see it like a frozen moment that afterwards will be released again in the process, so the presented works are in the end still changeable. It is not that I do not see final points - I feel when a stage is ending - but I cannot predict when it is arriving to a fixed end. Anyway, the end is always the beginning of a new stage.
When I start to experiment with my materials, colour and form, everything happens really quickly but the time in between these actions can be very slow though. It is the capture of that moment in the notion of an everlasting process. It is a rhythm that I seek to comprehend, but finally it only gives me more questions. I like to keep things moveable so I take a lot of pictures of the in-between moments of objects or from my studio in order to remember. These pictures are a collection of memories and ideas like a sketchbook just as I collect materials, colours, forms, books, etc.
I see my practice as a means of archiving what I think is interesting and important. I am constantly digging in this archive to find creations. The archive not only consists of pictures or texts, but also the objects, the materials, the colours, the ideas, the meetings, the conversations, etc. They are all parts of what I call ‘the archive’. In the end, I am still struggling though to find out how I can capture them all in the moment and how I can use them in my work.
