Bassculture Islands No 2 | Page 48

The creative process A friend of mine always says ‘I was a born artist…’, I’d like to think that you can’t really define a starting point, especially in regard to my creative process. I’m always trying to get myself out of a box in order to find the truth of the moment. The images usually come to me. I’m trying to make a picture of the present moment. So I regularly do prints that lay around the studio and they kind of get organized as a part of a giant puzzle. Some works fits together and I associate with them while others are just waiting for the right spot to fit in. I’m working on following the “pace of life”, inhale and exhale. It’s an ever going process. Harmony catches my eye, then becomes a picture, the picture becomes a painting, that I take a photo of while painting when harmony catches my eye again. And it starts over… As in the myth of the Ourobouros, my creative process is a quest of eternal renewal and reemergence of life… Any visual production I make is the seed of the next piece…