Artist Statement: Soap - Engraved Time
Things that disappear or gradually diminish always catch my eye. Thus soap has become the subject of my photographs because it tends to disappear. Soap dissolves in a handful of water and transforms into intangible bubbles. The bubbles disappear whilst melting the dirt from our bodies. Soap changes its shape depending on the flow of the water and the grip of the hand. After it dries the soap shows us unexpected colors and patterns. The reason why I cannot ignore the soap, and am attracted to it is probably due to the mark of time engraved on every such object that is losing its body.


Ocean - A Mirror Without a Reflection
The sea and the sea view are closely linked to the blissful feeling of physical and mental freedom that accompany the escape of the eye and the thought across its endless surface. An experience that is almost too immense for our body and which brings us into an excited and attentive state. In Ocean, the slightly rippled sea surface is extended to the entire picture format. It is not sea pieces in the traditional sense, but a well-defined perspective space from the beach to the dramatically rushing waves of the beach and towards the outer limit of the horizon line. It is the tranquil sea that covers the picture surface. Each photograph has a specialised character, and at a formal level the Ocean is a small alphabet over the way in which the wind gently manipulates the heavy sea surface. As a natural phenomenon it is non-dramatic and beautiful, but you sense an underlying intensity, and our imagination of the gentle wind that blows on the sea surface is affected by our knowledge to the fact that immense forces of nature are held back here. In the pictures, the water surface could be said to resemble a finely ornamented silk veil: Impenetrable to the eye and strongly animating to the mind. At the conceptual level, the image is meant to challeng our curiosity and ability to mentally go further into the sea. To conquer the very idea about the ocean because the pictures hold only the essence: at the same time, the detail and the complete picture. They are everything and nothing, all up to us. The nature of water as the intangible matter that vanishes between our fingers when we attempt to grasp and understand it reflects our individual efforts at understanding ourselves. It is possible to mirror yourself in the sea without actually being able to see your own reflection. The empty sea picture sustains the metaphor for this eternally challenging process.