Cutting delicate structures forces me to work slowly, almost meditatively. This allows me to calmly engage with the subject at hand.
Almost every piece of work begins with a more or less vague idea. The material responds to the first design step. I adapt the next step to this response, and so my objects are created in dialogue with the material.
The challenge when working with white paper is to draw with structures. By folding, crumpling, and shaping, one can easily go from 2D to 3D. This gives one both surface and space with the same medium, using a minimum of tools.
I studied mathematics, physics, and earth sciences, and I work as a freelance journalist for trade journals and companies.
I have been drawing for as long as I can remember, but I have also taken courses with artists such as Rainer Dorwarth and Nelson Leiva, among others. I made my first paper cutouts at the age of 11 and then forgot about it for many years. At some point, I came across the scissors and black paper again and restarted where I had left off as a student, first with scissors and black paper, then with a scalpel, cutting mat, but white paper. In 2021, I discovered stone paper and began exploring the possibilities of the material.
At some point, I realized that my experiments almost always resulted in dance-like forms. That's how I found “my theme”: dance/movement. What interests me is the dancing itself and the feeling it evokes, not the dancers.
