Collection: Art
KNITTED SKETCHES
Colors are terrible. They drive me crazy. They intrude and have to be sorted out constantly. That is a constant irritation and driving force in my work.
My work is consistently about time, texture, contrasts, color combinations and feelings of the unfinished. I am interested in the traces of the hand in the materials of the work.
My pictures are a kind of tactile sketches. Sketches are drafts, they are the outline of something not yet fully formed. I remain in the sketching stage. It is a space, an in-between between the real now and the idea of what could happen. Sketches spur something that is on its way. I try to maintain this space. Between the tangible reality and the idea of what could take shape. That point is drawn out with the slowness that lies in the creation of the pictures.
My objects - baskets, vases, containers - are driven by frustration and interest in color and texture combinations. The logic from the sketch work also plays a role here. Why a knitted vase? That's not possible, it needs to be treated before it can hold water and be used. But no, it stops before that and makes the idea of the vase a sensory reference point.