My aim is to invent spaces, images, and stories in which the power of discarded objects is revealed. In the broadest sense, I consider myself a Still Life artist. I create sculptural assemblages, installations and texts that emerge from the concept of composition in dialogue with bulky discarded objects I find on the roadside and randomly collect on my daily walks.
In my engagement with discarded objects, I feel overwhelmed by the socio-ecological problems of mass consumption and environmental pollution. In dialogue with the discarded objects, I address themes such as exhaustion, exploitation, injury, responsibility, appreciation, care, and vulnerability. However, the more time I spend with the collected objects, the more the dialogue develops in unexpected directions, rather than focusing entirely on these themes.
Engaging in a sculptural dialogue with objects means balancing their properties as much as my bodies interactions and visions, as well as the space and situation in which we find ourselves. The dialogue leaves an impression and simultaneously evokes associations with historical, theoretical and philosophical insights, images, colors, a particular form or redesign, another object, a person, a condition, a gesture, a rhythm or a specific materiality. The collaborative process forms a carpet, like a field of flowers that is traversed and from which blossoms are picked, until the field is left behind and the bouquet is consciously placed as a composition for contemplation in a space isolated from the field.
