I like totemic artefacts and have a close link to ceramic as material. For me it is complex and practical, but I don’t reflect on it much. I use the shiny attractiveness to draw the viewer in. The surface is a tool.
In pieces like Last little stupid donkey, 2010, the diminutive scale is reflected in a very modest, self-conscious posture.
Scale is very important. I mix scale to make a group of works dynamic and create a floating time feeling. It’s about being both close and far away. I tend to work on a smaller scale, to have immediacy and see my work as three-dimensional drawings.
In Sleeping, with dog (2010), the motif of a possessive protector or ominous portent of danger is played out with the dog perched on the chest of the prone figure, gazing intently down, alert and in control – uncomfortable as a depiction of reality and ominous as a metaphorical scenario. It reminded me of Gauguin’s Manao Tupapau (She Thinks of the Spirit, The Spirit Watches Over Her) (1892).
Yes, that was the idea, a mix of threat and affection. I was inspired by that Gauguin and the memory of the dog I had during my teens.
I like totemic artefacts and have a close link to ceramic as material. For me it is complex and practical, but I don’t reflect on it much. I use the shiny attractiveness to draw the viewer in. The surface is a tool. In pieces like Last little stupid donkey, 2010, the diminutive scale is reflected in a very modest, self-conscious posture. Scale is very important. I mix scale to make a group of works dynamic and create a floating time feeling. It’s about being both close and far away. I tend to work on a smaller scale, to have immediacy and see my work as three-dimensional drawings. In Sleeping, with dog (2010), the motif of a possessive protector or ominous portent of danger is played out with the dog perched on the chest of the prone figure, gazing intently down, alert and in control – uncomfortable as a depiction of reality and ominous as a metaphorical scenario. It reminded me of Gauguin’s Manao Tupapau (She Thinks of the Spirit, The Spirit Watches Over Her) (1892). Yes, that was the idea, a mix of threat and affection. I was inspired by that Gauguin and the memory of the dog I had during my teens.
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