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My inability to grasp the wonder of the Creation and my
personal feeling of nothingness against the forbidding
greatness of the universe as opposed to the feeling that
BEGINNING – PERSONAL NOTES mankind is the center of the universe, balance one another.
These opposing notions ground me and set me in my
The source of my need to create art is unknown to me. I workshop and there is the place where I search and find
know that I need to create. I like the excitement of a new my small creations.
beginning.
I enjoy the process of creating. Probably, this is why I am In a tree trunk, cut alongside or across, I create new life. In
attracted to the subject of Beginning and Creation. the elongated cuts I follow the growth and flow. The tree
grows from bottom to top and my flow runs from top to
The materials which I encounter allure my imagination. bottom, a sort of going back to the source of life, to the
Life in a dead wood, the process of change of phase of seed, to the beginning. In a tree trunk, cut across into
bronze, entice me to dwell on the subject matter of sections, I search in depth against its fiber. There, where
Creation. Retaining, as much as possible, the essence and one can see the past time, the history of the tree, I look for
character of the media, following its inner structure, I marks of occurrences and I rejuvenate them
search for my new creation, small scale ones and personal. and create a new existence.
Some light here, a new bud there, here an emergence,
there a flow. My bronze works are affected by years of watching the
casting process in a foundry, where my workshop is

…MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND… …AND THE DRY LAND APPEAR…
GENESIS 2,7 GENESIS 1,9
OAK WOOD AND STEEL OAK WOOD AND STEEL
145CM X 60CM, 2000 145CM X 60CM, 2000

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