I make drawings in dialogue with work in wood, ceramic, and glass. Ideas moving between drawing and sculpture are shaped and energized by translation, much like words which seem to undergo material change as I switch between English and Dutch. As images become material, objects, figures, moments, air, and words inhabit a surface, and reveal something fleeting and uncertain of their materiality. Drawing’s tendency to endlessly transform charges the whole of my imaginative process.

The drawings are fleeting scenes that take place as you look, but could exist at any point on the timeline. Watching in first person, intense moments play out in faded color. Dust, rain, and wings blur the edges of the frame. As these atmospheres expand into sculptural work, I join, cast, fire, glaze and carve material.

The sculptural work always starts with wanting to research how to combine, mix and attach various materials. I hope that the work can consist of combinations without figuration setting off an illustrative story.