My two wall sculptures are made of simple, everyday materials such as newspaper, wallpaper scraps, cardboard, book covers and notepads - a cultural material easily associated with language, writing and storytelling.

The material is laid in layers where the surface layer itself is not given from the start. The form is built up intuitively, painted, glued and varnished, broken up and transformed over time. Cracks, stains and defects that appear during the working process become visible traces of both the passage of time and the vulnerability of the material. A patinated surface finally forms the outer layer as a kind of abstract landscape for the metaphorically embedded.

In the work On the Road I have put together twenty-two smaller parts. Each part carries its own material history - or if you like: is part of an ongoing flow or larger context. Perhaps it's a bit like travelling? Like when your gaze is fixed out a train window; you perceive no details, no stories are captured on the fly but all you see are shades, facades, exteriors.

The work From the Archive is based on the same idea. With the help of the imagination, the closed form might represent a story, a conversation, a meeting, a decision, anything, where language invisibly permeates the layers. The majority of the surface is occupied by an empty leaf where a faint shadow of an equally empty square can just about be discerned. The greyish-white speck at the bottom is also visible in the shadow image if you look closely.

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