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What more can I say? Most of the time it is my intuition that tells me how to start with a work and then it is often a process of trial and error to get to the finish line.
Sometimes I feel that a work it is finished but then at some later time I come back to it and create another version.
I use my tools intuitivly. This means that sometimes I create a work and then for some reason I want to start all over again only to find that I can't recreate the work.
This made me think of the works of Gerhard Richter who said: Mein Bilder sind klüger als ich"
With Shinichi Tajiri I feel a relationship. In his biography written by Hestia Bavelaar and Els Barents on page 12 you can find the following quote from Tajiri: "Being an artist is a lifelong journey of discovery into the unknown.
An artist must also define his territory. That territory is himself. The things he makes must explain who he is." This is something I can relate to.
In my lifelong search I find it important that I open myself to learning, especialy in those periods that I feel empty and don't know how to progess. The latest course that I started was in november 2025.
That course was from ANDANA: "Photography and mindfulness, looking with full attention". This course will get me a long way for inspiration.
A quote from Richard Bach, writer of the inspirational fable, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull": Imagination is an old soul. Thas how I feel I am: an old soul.
At times I am in a higthend creative flow and then become somewhat unstable. In my latest episode I named myself WHAM, wich means a short explosion.
In that period I created, after "black square" from Malevitsj, the work: nearly black
Lately I realised I could enhance this work to reflect my interest on medition/contmeplation. The new version More about my mystical experiences
Below are a few examples that I am still working on.
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Below is an example of a work that I changed later.
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