Artist's statement
In an extreme world of consumerism, my intention is to create art that bridges the gap between the material world and the spiritual dimension. My work aims to establish a dialogue between the seen and the unseen aspects of our selves and our existence. In creating my artistic language, I refer to materials and media which historically have been associated with beauty and seduction; and whose lyricism, transparency and lightness allude to the materiality and spirituality of our existence. By capturing the viewer and establishing a connection, I have made the sublime visible.
The pieces I create now are works of art that seem to me as if they might be found in our dreams, reminiscent of another world. I think that inside every one of us there are signs of this other world, signs of a universal essence that produced the cosmos and all life therein.
My work deals with the idea of gravity, with what weighs us down and what can release us. I take heavy materials such as steel and try to make them light, and I take light materials, such as feathers, and try to make them weighty. I like to work with polar opposites, not just at the level of materials but also as concepts – life and death, organic versus technological. Art must contain everything and nothing: where one exists, the other exists too. This is the path which serves as an opening to the infinite, to the inner freedom which is one of the most precious things a man can possess.
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