STATEMENT

My interest goes out to what I call everything that “is”. Everything exists simultaneously: all physical matter and all our thoughts, emotions, visual observations and reflections. Equally, all happenstances in this world occur simultaneously, no matter if the news reports it in a specific order or you read it on internet at random order; someone who is being raped, an elephant being born in the zoo, a cell mutation in the deep ocean, quarks, or a star that dies.
 
In my opinion, all that happens is of equal importance. In my drawings and paintings, therefore, I seek to make a statement about equality and simultaneity and their interactive (spatial) relationship. Whether the viewer attaches importance to one figurative element or the other does not, I find, depend on the subject matter. Whether a drawn building that releases toxic waste into a river or a mouse that sits quietly in a corner is more or less important in a work, it all depends on how you draw them into a work. 

But putting different elements simultaneously into an image and making them all equally visually appealing to me is not enough. I am searching for a new kind of imagery, for that piece of work that can challenge today’s hectic society. I experiment with different techniques, different views of perspective and I question the notion of depth, be it philosophically or through my drawings and paintings.