Boiled-dry Memories

For me, the painting in itself has several properties that makes it relate to memories like no other art form. Looking through your rear window is always coloured in a highly personal way.
Painting allows you to approach this tremendously accurate because of the infinite possibilities in color shades and shapes that are open from the start. There are no natural laws that will hold you back, as it is even possible to paint the impossible.
So, a painting can make a memory tangible again in a unique way, compared to all the other art forms. Paint is a tangible thing, something that is really there. But the image is an illusion. And precisely that double quality of a painting; being there and not there is what makes it so unique: it adds a present dimension to the image. A painted memory has become real as it time-traveled to the present.

Personally, my work helps me to fixate my impressions and render my illusions credible. For me, it repairs what was broken. It is a self-modeled order to fight the battle with time and its consequences.