Last year I have been struggling with making art because of many reasons. Principal reason is that I do not wish to make too much art. This sounds strange now that I wrote that down. But is it? Not really. Last year, I collaborated with Marjolein Knottenbelt on a commissioned work that we called ‘het bewaarvraagstuk in de kunst’ for performing heritage at reinwardt academie Amsterdam. we made a video and an installation. The video is a conversation between the two of us in my storage space that I stuffed with my installations. At the same time in my studio I was starting to make new commissioned sculptures. In the end the sculptures commission did not go through and I was annoyed (understatement) as well as stuck with this commissioned work. So when these two contradictory story lines happen at the same time my magical thinking brain believes that life is telling me something. Sit down and think about what you are bringing into this world. And so I did. Thinking in this case is for me the same as feeling what feels right and what not.

When I arrived in the Netherlands in 2009 I knew very well what I wanted. To make sculptures that deal with impermanence. Meaning: I make the sculptures with all the love I have in me and then I give it to nature and natures does their thing with it. I register the process and that is it. I enjoy the form as it is until it changes and it becomes a new form beyond my control. Becoming accustomed to change and eventually to dissapearing. In the course of the years I made installations that have that same theme but not the physical dissapearing/impermanence. I had lots of fun (for lack of a better word) making these installations, but they were hard to sell of course. So I ended up with a storage full of installations about impermanence. How’s that for a contradiction ;).

Here’s the video.