ARTIST STATEMENT

In my artistic practice, I mainly work with everyday materials – used tea bags, pieces of plastic, clothing labels, pennies. I collect things that most people throw away: Pacifiers, packaging from fat balls, advertising plastic toys. These objects fascinate me not only because of their colors and structures, but also because of their symbolic meaning – they stand for our abundance, our contradictions, our longing for sustainability and our actual actions. I see my art as an invitation to take a closer look, to question habits of thought, to endure contradictions and to allow alternative perspectives.

Our world is complex and chaotic. As an artist, I want to show this complexity through my work: by using different materials, by combining the beautiful and the broken, by holding contradictions without trying to resolve them.

I like to draw connections because I am fascinated by the diversity and interconnectedness of our world. Everything we do – no matter how big or small – has the power to affect others, whether nearby or far away.

I deal with the question: How do we want to live – and how does that fit in with what we do every day? My work is not instructive, but exploratory, tentative and polyphonic. I draw on a way of thinking that doesn’t want to resolve contradictions, but rather make them visible. For me, sculpture is the right medium for this: it encourages you to change your point of view, to move, to look at the whole in a new way again and again.

Working with my hands is central to my process. A process of repetition and care, like a quiet meditation. It’s through this act of making that a sculpture or object comes together. At the same time, my works are often fragile – maybe tlike the world itself: beautiful, complex, and vulnerable.
The objects and Sculptures I create ask viewers to slow down, look closely, and sit with contradictions. I don’t offer clear answers but invite reflection: How do we want to live? And how does that fit with what we actually do?

I see my art as inseparable from life. I find inspiration in daily life, in global events, and in the places I’ve called home – like South Africa, where I earned my degree. Its history and culture continue to influence my practice. My work often touches on social, economic, political, and environmental issues – not as a lesson, but as an exploration and an invitation to think, feel and shape our lifes. My life plan itself is a form of artistic practice: self-determined, socially integrated, socially aware and open to change. Not as a ready-made truth, but as an invitation to think, feel and shape.