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“My work attempts to mimic the I sculpt with wax, clay and rotten scraps of rotten wood. I find the dry
expansive landscape of my youth. wood which I then cast into resin rot wood due to excess water seeping

This is evident in the manner in or bronze and recreate to mimic the into the center quite symbolic. I use
which my practice continually spills original putting my viewer under this in correlation to the Foucaultian
forth from drawing into three- false pretense and allowing them to theory of “Knowledge is Power”

dimensionality. Through sculpture I question. and “absolute power corrupts
attempt to manipulate the messages absolutely”, in the same way the
inherent to scale and material, having Visually I have a “revealed - water corrupts the wood over time.
worked in povera substances such concealed” like approach to my
as found wood and plastic, often work. I also draw inspiration from My work has an organic approach,

solidifying it in permanence through the Hegelian “master-slave” concept, one piece informs the next.
the use of bronze. which combined plays on the Therefore my work acts as proposed
notion of creating optical illusions. pieces rather than final destinations.”

The body as a vessel for power, glory From one angle someone might
and inevitable humiliation is a key see something entirely different to
concept within my work - a thought another angle.
which binds my reflections on
masculinity and heraldic histories. Practically my work mostly manifests

from objects and materials found
within my surroundings such as

TRUNCATED II
2015
Bronze on Steel
Edition of 12
340 x 120 x 80 mm
EUR 4.250,–

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