You sure must be strong..

In this work I wanted to explore a strong emphasis on a minimal amount of shapes on a canvas surrounded by a lot of large, open space. To me, it’s about saying exactly what needs to be said and nothing more; to strip everything down to a minimal amount of interesting gestures, giving them room to breathe. The placement of the objects on the canvas is a huge part of this work. I wanted to create a strong peripheral feel; that is, no matter which object you look at, you always feel the others (even if there aren’t many). The very lightly colored big blue canvas feels like a vast ocean, with a few shapes out to sea. But it’s also a happy place, away from all the chaos of the land-inhabited planet, safely in a big space, surrounded by nature with no other humans in sight.