The collapse of Lehman Brothers Investment Bank in 2008 triggered a worldwide financial crisis and pushed gold prices to an all-time high.
I used a machine gun to shoot through bank-issued bars of precious metal, which symbolise our present-day value system.

Gazing at a 20-million-year-old volcanic stone is like gazing into the universe. In your eyes this slab – a solified black basalt column – will appear as a bright white hexagonal image.

I was privileged to work in a small community of traditional Ashanti male casters in Kumasi. The field research is published in a book, ‘Lost and Found, the Asante Trail to Rings’. This experience changed my artistic focus. Casting became my passion and subsequently led to numerous workshops.

Japanese Art CLAY incorporates precious metals and is as pliable as soft wax. Kneading gold or pure silver devoid of its usual resistance is an astonishing experience. It is hence possible to skip the positive/negative casting process, and model directly, one to one.

The light installations represents my reoccurring themes featuring light and shadow.

Like a tattoo, the projected light clings to the body, changing with every movement. These light symbols are transitory, fleeting, weightless, ephemeral, worthless and cannot be possessed.

The discs made of coloured tissue paper are transformed into jewellery by the wearer. Something unique and personal comes to life by…

At that time, playing with the essential elements of line, spiral, arch and angle, the obvious solution was to slip the line into the spiral.

The Perspex Brooches feature a steel pin that pushes the fabric outwards. The Perspex Waves have grooves that are gripped firmly by a round rubber band, which slips into position behind the material. The resulting crumpling or wrinkling of the fabric emphasises the effect of the brooch.

Returning to primary colours and forms meant a reduction to the rudimentary and the beginning of a new development. The resulting brooches in aluminium and polysynthetic resin were made in limited series. Incorporating the element of perspective gives the geometrical forms a three-dimensional quality.