We see a woman sitting on a stool here. She is dreaming away a bit. It is a scene from my period that I worked in 2020 on the Balkans for six months as an artist in residence. I always sat on the balcony when I took a break. This work is part of a series of 4 "paper paintings" where a woman is portrayed in an urban setting.  The canvas is 80 x 120 cm and covered with old paper; my working method for several years now.

I love the vibrancy of paper; of the function it has had as a vegetable bag, test, envelope, shopping slip or wrapping paper. With this material that I come across every day; I stick my canvases. I cherish the volatility of old paper and appreciate it as an expression: it takes on a new shape because of me. For me, paper in my hands means freedom, an endless space full of possibilities. It's material I experimented with playfully as a toddler.

This creates work in which people and their environment are central. Often it is women in uncomfortable situations or attitudes, who look lost and dreamily into the world at an unwatched moment. I make the uncertainties and vulnerability of man visible. Due to the layering of the paper, you get into the skin of the subject.