A desire to be elsewhere - literally and figuratively - is the central theme of my work.
The urge to leave behind inevitably implies loss and farewell.
Although this subject matter is a constant in my work, the point of view from which I approach it keeps changing.
The boundary appears and reappears in my paintings in various forms (windows, reflections, mirrors, shadows). My desire aims for something not just outside my reality, but also outside my reach. Something as a memory or a daydream that does not correspond to reality. I try to make perceptible the boundary that isolates the here and now from other worlds: worlds gone by, worlds to come, imaginary worlds.
My most recent works emphasize the physical boundary between here and elsewhere, inside and outside, past and future. They give a view from behind the rain-covered windscreen of a car. Thick drops dance over the screen, or are smashed against the side, swept away by the wipers. The film of water on the otherwise unnoticed glass partly deforms the view. The painting weeps, but I try to put a comforting tenderness in its tears.
The screen uncovers the world I am longing for, but excludes it at the same time. The troubling layer of water is always there, in between here and elsewhere.