This text is silent.
Written words, make no sound. They are visible though. As similar to a painting is visible, and never it will speak.

What is sound?
Sound colours the silence. Imperative features of sound are: it is audible, it is invisible, it has a time span.

In our world, little silence is left, not for a long period of time in any case. Just listen.
It is in the afternoon and I’m seated in my arm chair, writing. Before long, a sound will arrive. Indeed…from a distance a soft growling appears, becoming louder and louder, filling the room and then slowly it ebbs away. Silence yet again reigns. Time and again this scene repeats itself.
It is the sound of traffic. Every motored passer-by makes his own music, in his distinct rhythm in his own time. And silence frames this music, like running grooves do on a record. They belong to each other.

I used to avoid the clamour; to be able to work, I required a total silence. Now it has become a muse to me, the uproar coming from the streets into my studio. In it I sense a spiritual force, an energy that is the root of our existence, it’s art’s very nourishment.
Ever present, forever changing, and unpredictable.

In all reticence my work is a witness to every such event. The dynamics and sensitivities of it has been translated into the languages of colour and form. It possess a tangible history by being richly layered here and there, and worn out on other places that we can read as an abstract travel journal. Here the very surface, the skin of the artwork speaks about the inner world.

In between and underneath these layers of paint are often shapes. Men and women, cigarettes, the moon. They stand for Time; frozen timeliness, volatility and also for vitality.
Whereas the paintings stand for both sound’s and time’s energy, the ceramic tablets are about those moments of silence that interchanges with the sounds. Often enough we live through silence as a moment in which nothing is happening. He who gives himself the trouble of examining the silence will this way gain access into this world of richness.

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