The material concrete really appealed to me because I saw the many possibilities. In the later phase of my studies I analyzed why I like the medium so much. And that was because of my environment because I grew up in Rotterdam, which was bombed during the Second World War and had to be rebuilt.
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I decided to study art therapy in my early 20s and after completing my bachelor studies I wanted to continue making art without the constant focus on the psychological aspect, so I decided to study sculpture/free art.
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I always work on more than one project at the same time, lots of ideas and old sketches which might become a project.
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The bliss after putting up with the struggle only to transfer one’s ideas as precisely as possible into reality.
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Being creative comes very naturally to me and it feels like things just fell into place.
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The real goal is to create your own connection between different horizons others have worked on and find your own formal language.
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To be an artist is my most salient identity. It is something I am and how I must be, much more than something I chose or decided to be, and I also recognize it as an immense privilege to wake up and choose this path again and again each day.
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If our generation is moving forward in the way it does in my surroundings, I think that we will definitely move towards an expanded definition of what our species is and what position we have in the world.
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I believe that art can be a form of self-assertion. It provides the freedom to experiment, expand one’s horizons, to communicate, engage with different materials a
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I’d like to respond to utopias, but I think we’ll be in a society with even greater divides, in denial of the world that’s burning.
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In one of my last media art projects I slipped into the role of Heino, Joseph Beuys and the band Kraftwerk. I also incorporated the poet Heinrich Heine, whom I love very much. That’s one of my favorite works.
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Freedom in art means not being constrained by commercial considerations, allowing the artist to experiment and create without being bound by concerns of success, approval, or sales.
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My intuition chooses, I guess. I am always trying to create a specific atmosphere – I know exactly, what I want to see in the end.
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