One painting was made in 2011. The two others are from 2024 and 2025. It is a long span of time, enough for a visual language to change. “Hopp” (2011) was painted before there was a method. Starting was uncertain. The acrylic resisted. The colors slid or broke, and the attempt to soften transitions became a struggle. There were no direction and no decisions, only action and frustration. Only when I stepped back did a form appear. A bird pushed out of the color fields and I ma

Notes on process, limitation and artistic voice This text reflects on how long-term illness has shaped my artistic practice — not only in terms of working methods and materials, but in how I relate to time, presence and artistic voice. It offers a context for the work, rather than an explanation of it. For a long time, my health has been something I have kept in the background of my artistic work. Not because it hasn’t mattered, but because I was unsure of how to speak about

On noticing what is already here This short Zen story has stayed with me for many years. I return to it often, not as a lesson to be explained, but as a reminder. It speaks about proximity, about how what surrounds us most completely can also be the hardest to perceive. In my artistic practice, this story resonates deeply. Much of my work grows from a similar question: how to make visible what is already present, yet rarely noticed. Not by pointing or instructing, but by crea