Early Flowers / “Grotjes” (Ceramics, 2019)

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These landscapes and caves are made from clay, glaze, and fragments of scrap metal.
Many of them can contain oil and be set on fire, evoking the atmosphere of early human life in caves.

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Within these sculptural forms, abstract depictions of decaying human figures appear — merging with the earth itself.

The signifier and interpreter of all things has ceased to function, while all things continue to blossom and live.

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Here, the state of death is revealed as something both fragile and beautiful.

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The work exists in two complementary series:
— a collection of physical ceramic “caves” and “landscapes,” and
— a photographic series that illuminates a very different, more ethereal side of the same body of work.