“I Recollect drawing athletes I admired, sunsets during holidays or paintings like Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’. Since my early childhood this has been my way of processing moments of connection, finding out what it was that made these impressions valuable to me.
And now, looking for the ‘life’ or the ‘still’ in a still life, I feel more than ever I’m stopping time, boxing these objects that are or once were owned by collectors, artists, scientists or museums. Every object brings its own story by its very presence.
Dealing with time, the spirit of objects and their worth, I started incorporating Japanese beliefs and philosophies like animism, kintsugi or mono no aware, in my work.
