photo archive + bio
I use objects that have a connection to the portrayed person to composeing my work, such as cigarette butts, condoms, beer cans, underwear, semen, empty toothpaste boxes. In other words, things, that are part of these people's real world, and my own. I use such objects and
remains as a beginning for my portraits. Clay is used as technique. I use it like it was used in the 17th Century (for painting barroque saint images). I dress my sculptures with cloth from my own clothes. I create and sew all the clothes that are used in the pieces. I also include human hair to some of the pieces, my own hair (this was very often done in the
17th Century), a current relic that has its value in time, as to maintain a time, ordinary people who lived it. I write about my pieces using street spelling as a background background, another urban element I often use. My connection to the art work is important to any creative process. I believe that the artist is piece art itself. I have been going to places where the portrayed people use to go for over 20 years. Remembrances are part of my work. Every little thing is part of me: my lovers, my disappointments, my experiences with drugs, my life in the streets, and so forth. I depend on all of this to create art, I do not exist without these people.