Sometimes an image pops into my head that is so strange that I just have to make it. Like this woman - or lobster - or both. She looks straight at you, without shame, without explanation. As if saying, "Yes, this is me. Get used to it."
I love borderline characters like this. Half human, half something else. Maybe she is a metaphor for how we adapt to the world, or just how we arm ourselves against it. Or maybe she's just a lobster woman because my head thought of that at the time.
In any case, there is something uncomfortable as well as powerful in this image. She's no joke, but she doesn't take herself too seriously either. Just like my work actually.
My sculptures are often surrealistic, with a wink. They balance between beauty and absurdity, recognition and alienation. And if you see something completely different in them, that's exactly the point.
I am an image-maker with a head full of stories and a heart for the surreal. For me, images arise from within - sometimes clear, sometimes foggy, but always charged with feeling.
My work moves at the intersection of reality and surrealism. I look for humour and the..
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