A Time to Live

A Time to Live is about beauty to be found in the darkness, the good we get to enjoy in all our laborious toil. A laborious search in time. A search for peace and solid ground. Timeliness clings to our existence. Life is fragile. Time races on and things decay. My work stems from my fascination with the Bible book of Ecclesiastes, which is about the ineffable tiring of things. The endless cycle of time, where the sun goes on and on, the water flows and the wind blows back and forth. Everything is in vain, but the earth continues to exist. Ecclesiastes is like a mirror for me, in which I see my own fruitless search for how to live again, groping in the dark, looking for solid ground. The images arise mainly in the enclosed and hushed world of the forest. The forest is a reflection of my environment. I try to organise the chaos. For me, the forest is also the breathing place: where oxygen is created, where the roots beat deep into the earth to suck up water, to suck up life. In contrast, I place my role as a human being in self-portraits. A Time to Live is the depiction of that inner quest in which I use images that are full of recognition: the fleeting bubble, the path that gives direction, the trees as congealed time that overlooks centuries. Everything revolves around the cycle of darkness and light, chaos and order, stasis and movement, emptiness and meaning.