Ceramics

I’ve always wondered if an artwork says a lot about the artist, her origin, language, and experience? Whether art lives outside of its creator and if it gains meaning in the eye and sensibility of the observer? If an author completely explains her work, it narrows the viewer’s ability to explore it’s own relation to the art. I would rather leave the space for a viewer to look at it’s own world from a new perspective, creating an own narrative using my artwork as inspiration.

That’s exactly how ‘OER’ has happened. After I had a conversation with my ‘artist comrade‘ Helga Van Stralen, in which I tried to clarify and explain whatever I aim to achieve with my artwork, she said: “for me it is OER” (primordial, primal). The “eye and sensibility” of the observer encompassed in one short word all aspects of what I worked on for the past two years. I am sincerely grateful to her for that.

My personal biography as an artist, in the last 40 years (since my graduation) could be described the best by an ever changing rhythm of the words ON and OFF. Yet, one can’t go back, only forward. And for me, in this world, where external reality is clouded by destruction and pollution, ‘forward’ means inner, beautiful, creative journey towards a better future…