About the Work

When I first started, my neighbors used to wonder about me when I was hammering stones in the garden. For hours on end. In the meantime they know that I am often producing material for my pictures. Thank you, my dear neighbors, that you are so tolerant when it gets loud, because some stones are really hard. Hammering, sifting, hammering, sifting, hammering... When I am doing this work, I feel more like a Zen monk than a slave. It is a form of intense, patient confrontation with the material.

Some minerals I buy through businesses, but the most pleasing way to get materials is to come across a stone in nature and to take it with and give it a new purpose. This makes the creation of the picture an organic process. As you can imagine, this is usually a very long process. The black and white pictures need immense amounts of careful finishing work—an average of 60 to 80 hours.