ARTISTS TALKING

Travelling around, I met artists making things that were beyond the imaginable, artists who have sophisticated philosophies and are in touch with their emotions. Often all their audience wanted were timeless objects and icons. Fair enough, I thought, and made drawings that lured the viewer in while presenting them with a far more serious, often even tragic world once they were inside. My travels taught me that you need few tools to survive: the wish to connect, the openness to experience and the memories of having seen and done many different things that I can refer to in an abstract sense.

By allowing emotions to travel on the surface of the paper and then putting them out there so that they become dialogues with others, I try to admit how things are for me. How quantum physics feels from the inside, layer after layer after layer of simultaneous connections and thoughts. Developing unforeseen things that are slightly off-beat, continuing, allowing for mistakes, stutters and stumbles, the beauty of imperfection. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in...

One of the most profound things I heard was Alan Kaprow saying that every artist should stay an amateur. Maybe he meant that the amateur doesn't bother about a trademark style, is not concerned to turn their observations from readings into statements. And instead of adding yet another and another more or less personal comment on the condition of society, the amateur creates something that is informed but makes space for the imagination. This is so basic, that it is easily lost