My work is about space, objects and their relationship with us humans. Through everyday life, I gather concepts and elements from the spaces I navigate. These elements and concepts are intuitively transformed into sculptures. The impulse to represent certain elements of my surrounding environment comes from a desire to record, document and catalogue the world. These documentations are then translated through my own imagination into a personalised abstract language based on geometry and symbolism. These materialisations of hypothetical forms are then shared, encouraging the public to devise a personalised response to the work, without imposing a prefabricated concept that determines the viewer’s reaction.
My chosen method when making prioritises the handmade over the machine-made; geometric shapes are hand-built, cast, and fixed in metal. Symmetrical structures are most commonly fabricated through machine-aided processes, due to their suitable and straightforward characteristics. Wax building and casting these forms interferes with the concept of geometry itself, and slows down the making process. These cast forms intend to feature the slight traces of making and the defects that characterise artisanship, such as not perfectly straight lines, fingerprint traces, nail traces, small holes or scratches. The constant tension between the aim for a flawless outcome and the inability to achieve it, is what makes us human, and what makes handmade artworks unique. Society both celebrates and condemns these flaws. The dichotomy between these two concepts is represented in my sculptures, which translate the urban environment into a sculptural language based on personal representation.
- the artist