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The motives in my work relate to ideas about freedom and longing. Ideas that play a dominant role in our culture. The paintings mostly refer to existing, iconic, archetypical images. Herin romantical clichés, like the painting with the road to the horizon or a waiting sailboat, are not avoided but reviewed and reinterpreteted. Photographs that I make or find, can be clichéd or have a certain generality to be interesting as a source. Also broker photos or commercials with their idealisation and escapism are relevant in this perspective. Interesting ambivalencies can be recognised in the work: hopeful expectation, optimism, together with suspense and the melancholy of forlorn dreams, lost ideals. It's precisely these ambivalencies that I want to express in my work. The work has a romantic as well as an ironic side, is both reflective and lyrical. Pierre Bonnard wrote in his diary: 'Beaucoup de petits mensonges pour une grande véritè'. Bob Dylan later said in 'Things Have Changed': 'All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie'. | |
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