The ceramics project can be seen as a painterly colour research in rethinking the art of drawing. By playing with different shapes and rearranging coloured pieces the room takes shape in a different way. It becomes a complete sensorial experience. The project also shows my way of exploring and working with a new medium in my practice. Trying to find other ways to accomodate the drawings. Experimenting with different methods of molding clay, different techniques to apply to clay like glazes and ceramic pencil drawings. During this proces the spontaneity of the drawing is still very present. When looking closely, or not even close at all, you can notice the ceramics are cracked, broken and glued back together, glazes flaked off or wrong colors appeared after firing the ceramic pieces in the ovens. But it doesn’t matter, they are my attempt in translating the art and the act of drawing and my drawings are never perfect so why should the ceramics be.

The drawing that hangs across the space and partly against the wall is made site-specific and is an attempt to deal with the architectural features of the gallery space. It divides the room in two and clearly defines the space needed for my installation, but at the same time it doesn’t feel like hiding any space. The drawing is open for the audience to peek through, look through or even walk through. It feels heavy but its light and open and not completely fixed in space. The pieces of cut-out drawing float on the floor. Giving the feeling they slowly but steadily come loose from their mural appearance.

Both works excist seperate from eachother but they clearly complete one another too. The black and white drawings functions as the curtain that pulls the room and the visual language of the ceramic pieces together. The whole space functions as a graphic installation. For this exhibition one needs the other one to stand out. My work is about playing with space and senses. It’s a way of showing and colouring the space and at the same time encouraging the viewer to move around and take different (graphic) perceptions of the space.