People should stop making art and start making artefacts. Artefacts show us the journey from drawing abstract lines in caves using our fingers towards artworks speaking a language and whole cultures telling a story again and again to make it better.
We can look back in time using artefacts like astronomers using black holes.
My main material is my photography, edited in older software -but every copy is unique, made by hand using paint and a transfer print technique on wood, sometimes in an ornamental frame that is reproducible as well.
The main focus of my work is time.
Born in 1963
Studied literature, history and theatre-science. No formal art-education, claims to be an artist with a poetica.
Started collecting self made photos for artworks in an interactive story in 2003, this has grown to 350.000+ files. The interactive story wasn’t finished.
His artworks are made with techniques found while searching ways to print with real texture and paint, like transfer printing and working with paper maché clay. He calls his works ‘handmade digital art’ to contrast them with generative-AI.
Important exhibitions: in Hotel Bogota, during EMOP and at the East Side Gallery remembering building the Berlin Wall.