| Inspiration The word ‘inspiration’ makes me think of the French word ‘inspirer’, breathe in what comes from outside, as opposed to ‘expérience’ and the verb ‘expirer’, about what flows from inside to outside. These two go hand in hand, but I concern myself only partially with inspiration and external impressions, even though I am aware of the affinity between my work and the work of some other artists. Full text in pdf | Nature and culture How to deal with the natural space and the transformed cultural space? How can those two realities go together and distinguish themselves from each other? What is a possible harmonious relationship between nature and culture? How we transcend this duality? These are the questions I ask myself and which I’ll try to answer within the framework of my work in which the matter and culture takes his own … Full text in pdf |
| About tools The tool is not just an extension of the hand, which facilitates its operation, but is also an important mean to bring character to a creation… Full text in pdf | As a human being As a human being, I am interested in everything under the sun that solicits close investigation. As an artist however… Full text in pdf |
| Chawan The tea bowl is part of the tea ceremony in Chinese and Japanese culture. It has a function alongside Full text in pdf | The Art of failure. As a ceramist, you often encounter surprises and failure is part of the long journey. Full text in pdf |
| Unity of Surface and Substrate In the same way that the pictorial representation has shifted from the mere representational to the more abstract, sculpture has also developed over time from the figurative to the conceptual. Full text in pdf | No Lotus without mud. When we look with full admiration at an old 12th-century Chinese celadon vase of the song dynasty, what strikes us the most? The shape? Full text in pdf |
| Making the familiar strange. What happens in our mind when we are confronted with an unusual situation or when we are faced with an object never seen before. Full text in pdf | Only the preparation. As a ceramist I am familiar with the construction, the design and the finishing of the clay Full text in pdf |
| Colours and ceramics How can we choose colours for our ceramic work?First of all, it is important… Full text in pdf | Spontaneity Spontaneity is often disregarded as acting on the good, as the fruit of the accidental, Full text in pdf |
