Introduction
There is a Place inside. However, there is no road leading to this place.
I always try to get some knowledge of this Place, I try to gain some experience of It, to smell and taste It. But all this is in vain.
There is a Place in me about which I do not know anything. Nevertheless, this is what interests me most. And this is where I long to be.
It has been the case ever since I was born.
Painting is a kind of attempt to reach this Place. But I know it cannot take me there. It can, however, still my longings a bit...
I enjoy painting. It is a real challenge for me, exciting as well as tranquillizing.
Painting is Life, the world coming and going. With every single painting, just like with every single day, I foster new hopes to succeed, to get closer to this Place. Then I realize that I do not even have to move, I am already There. It is already in me. And this has been the case since time immemorial...
I just failed to accept it to be that simple...
It’s all white outside. The world is painted in snow. As if all colours have been wiped off life…As if a painting would have faded…And all this is to make the canvas as it was before, pure, without patterns.
Winter is my favourite season. In winter the original colour becomes visible. The colour that embraces all other colours now concentrated in one single point, absorbed and resting before they all spread out again.
I am a pilgrim wondering through my life. I record the events in the diary of my paintings. I constantly search for The Picture, the faithful reflection of my Self. It seems unpaintable, however, I keep trying to approach It by all my paintings, and by all my drawings. Every painting is a step towards It. First, by digging deep, then trying to find my way, then getting lost, falling, then rising up again and flying.
I have been painting for 11 years. I have seen many hundreds of white silk strained in front of me. Before I start every piece I always hope This will be the One, and I will eventually be able to see, through Art, what is the most beautiful on earth…
