CHEMICAL PROCESSES

Inspired by landscape, travels, and thoughts, I build my paintings layer by layer. During this process, I explore the characteristics of different materials and how they affect each other. This creates a dynamic of rejection and attraction, chaos and order. Sometimes you can see one layer through another and sometimes the deepest layer pops up through all layers. When I reach a certain effect I seal the spot with gold leaf or diamond seeds.

I became inspired by the processes, shapes, and meanings of nature. It captivates me how layers of stone provide fertility for the root to let something beautiful exist and how some layers of soil hide the strongest signs of erosion. It fascinates me how water easily flows but repels fat. How rocks turn into sand and merged with pigment and egg-yolk I use it in an 'al-fresco' technique. Dark iron rust affected by a few tears of water shows a wide palette of earthy tones. In the core of the earth diamond and gold grow. Gold veins run through layers of rock and which among the precious metals are stainless and dense but soft. Pure diamonds only can develop under the right balance of pressure, when this fails the diamond will be full of imperfections. These are some examples which for me resemble as metaphors how a process, stage of life, or personality can appear.