(Ticking of clocks)
(Sounds of music box)
It appeals very much to the dream world, to recollection.
And it could also somehow stimulate the imagination --
in a very powerful way.
And I in reality, it is perhaps a desire to create pictures --
about stillness and presence.
(Sounds of )
The miniature is the refuge of the great.
The quality of miniatures or small things is in reality,
the concentration of information.
The sharper the diamond is ground the more beautiful the gem looks
and it is in the fact the processing of three-dimensional forms
that increases their value
There is a figure so small
that he can split a dust particle with his forehead
and step through it with his whole body.
So, that's pretty small right?
(Sounds of music box)
In a way the artist works with remnants, society's remnants
this is always the area with potential
I am a thing finder and its so extreme that every time I ...
Some shoes are so badly made that they lose their labels.
A kind of red thing under the shoe, in the sole
I have been finding them for ten years. Each time, I pick up one like that.
Because I use the as stairs.
When I have enough, I use them as steps.
So suddenly the world is incredibly large with regard to materials.
It's all about ideas.
The premise right from the start has been
to collect items from the world around that are already manufactured.
And take them and put them into my own contexts
and use them on the miniature level.
It "mimes" something else, that you don't see at first,
but which has it's origin in a completely different function.
But this kind of disappears. It is dissolved.
And of course there are also things that already have an age --
a certain ambiance that matches this poetic universe,
because I aim to generate images
that may encourage you to linger a while in them
and materials that have a certain age radiate a restraint --
and a value that I feel is poetic.
(Sounds of music box)
We are very stimulated.
I think we're living in what's called "the great social epoch".
We exchange a lot.
The downside is perhaps that things don't have time to mature.
We are very quick to take action in all kinds of context.
But art is a space reserved for a certain spontaneity.
A place where you don't have answers and don't need to produce.
You go back to just being.
As they say, we are "human doings" or "human beings"
I feel attracted to the idea of just being allowed to be.
I am interested in presence.
And that is perhaps found more in stillness and reflection.
One can speak of ... without sounding pathetic --
there is actually something called "the artist's great loneliness".
(Ticking of clocks)
And it suits me just fine,
that this place here dilapidated and worn.
It seems so much more relaxed to me,
this is definitely my oasis.
(Ticking of clocks)