My philosophy

I attempt to create in my wooden sculpture something close to a spiritual ideal, the effect of which might be in a way as healing on the onlooker as medicine or the experience of singing in a choir - if you let it happen to take effect on you. It is like getting closer to a transpersonal ideal, one step further on your individual way of developing your personality.

My search for appropriate forms has always been a constant struggle to surpass my own ideas, leaving spiritual traces in the works of art which can be perceived by the beholder. You might also say that you can discern the quality of a work of art in the fact how often the artist has surpassed his own ideas and has so died and been reborn in his own creative process.

Notes on the spherical shape which is a frequently used motif in my works of art:

I would like to turn into a sphere, then I may be moved and rolled when pushed, but I will never collapse and fall. However my mental spine needs to be kept flexible so as to stay in an upright position, which reflects the human condition.

The sphere is constructed to impact you, the beholder, in the following way: you may move either from within (centre and radius) or from outside (tangents); or you combine both movements and go rhythmically from the centre to the periphery and vice versa. Doing that you will realise that something is taking shape inside you, the traces of which you may also perceive as reflections in the works of art.

The spheric shape represents the utmost reduction of three-dimensional space and yet, it is very diverse.

The spheric shape not only refers to the human embryonic phase but also to the expanding cosmos.

In my view the spheric shape is ideal in designing artefacts which are meant to have a positive impact on the beholder in many ways, physically, mentally and spiritually.