Textiles and my paintings and sculptures
Textiles have always played a role in making paintings, but in the last three years textiles have taken the lead role. I use textile as a material like you use clay or paint, purely as a material to build or paint with. There are references to textile techniques, sewing, knitting, punching, crocheting, twisting rope, but I don’t take the time to make a work entirely according to those techniques, I don’t dabble. Some places I really dive into a detail, then I fondly dabble.
I explore the limits of materials, I did and do that with paint. At the moment I am researching how to use textile, as if I am seeing it for the first time. I prefer to use the material monumentally, because most textile works are made in a time-consuming technique. There is nothing against that, but when I draw the parallel with painting, it seems like textile is a fine-painting technique. I look for the grand gesture, for monumental images with a textile look. It’s about coarse and fine, attention and nonchalance and the balance therein. This often produces an underlying tension, an unsaid commentary.
