Studio · Process
The matter responds
The studio is not a place of production. It is a space of inquiry, where not everything needs to be resolved.
Adding. Covering. Removing. Scraping. Uncovering.
Emotional archaeology
The surface is worked the way an archaeologist works the ground. Built up, covered, removed, eroded and built again. Some fragments remain visible; the rest stays beneath.
The viewer never receives all the information, only certain layers. Which is exactly what happens with a person: we never see everything. We see fragments.
How a work is born
Support
100 × 65 cm canvas: a vertical format that runs through the whole series and recurs as a working space of its own.
Matter
Acrylic worked with a palette knife, in impasto that leaves grooves and relief. Gold and metallic pigments appear at the end.
Layers
Layers of colour that cover one another and let earlier ones show through. Every layer holds an earlier story.
Erosion
Incisions, scraping and cracks. Removing in order to uncover. The crack is no longer a flaw: it is information.
Control / chance
Accepting uncertainty.
For years, professional life demanded organisation, structure, results and control. In the studio the opposite happens: not knowing exactly what will occur, allowing accident to appear.
There is technical control over the process, but also a willingness to let the material take part in the making. Materials react to one another; pigments do not settle evenly; edges stay irregular. Something has happened there.
Materials
Earth. Mineral. Pigment. Wood. Water.
After years surrounded by perfect surfaces, screens and filtered images, a deliberate search for elemental materials.
Colour palette
The colours of earth, lime and stone.
Mineral, desaturated tones. Terracotta and olive appear sparingly, like a pigment surfacing between layers.
Tensions