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Inspiration and experience
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.
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…
Chawan
The tea bowl is part of the tea ceremony in Chinese, Korean and Japanese culture. It has a function alongside
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.
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.
Colours and ceramics
How can we choose colours for our ceramic work?First of all, it is important…
Nature versus 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 …
As a human being
As a human being, I am interested in everything under the sun that solicits close investigation. As an artist however…
The Art of failure
As a ceramist, you often encounter surprises and failure is part of the long journey.
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?
Only the preparation
As a ceramist I am familiar with the construction, the design and the finishing of the clay
Spontaneity
Spontaneity is often disregarded as acting on the good, as the fruit of the accidental,