(2024)
100 x 100 cm: concrete, acrylic, oil, spray paint, iron flour, salt, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, red wine on canvas.
€ 1.000,-
My process mimics the natural weathering of metals, resulting in a surface that evokes the raw beauty of rusted materials found in nature.
There's something innately recognizable about the process of weathering.
Where I live on the west coast, the effects of the salt and sun and wind on objects around us are ever present.
Yet, amidst this familiarity—this expected march of time we witness on piers and old vessels—there's an element of the unexpected which I find extremely enticing. It's in the way a shaft of sunlight might catch a particularly intricate pattern of rust, revealing colors you'd swear weren't there a moment before. Or how the abstract swirls and eddies of corrosion might suddenly resemble drone photos of a dried-up river delta, inviting you to dream away.
To me this interplay between the known and the surprising, the anticipated decay and the unforeseen beauty—it's what breathes life into these weathered surfaces. It transforms them from mere representations of age into portals of story and sensation, as complex and alluring as the North Sea itself.
