more i more i feel like making pictures, being near the water and capturing the many different watersides. i feel like circling the earth with my camera gonig from one place to another. is it that i want to control the earth, is it that i want make clear for myself that the world is round and that you cannot go somewhere else, is it that i want to influence the way people look at the landscapes and waterscapes around them.
the questions come up and answers are sometimes impossible. but slowly i notice that every day i have different questions, different issues to consider and different thoughts about what to do and what not to do.
the idea of making projects circling around the world is not new. in the scetches for my turku project from 1995 i see houses floating around the world, i see houses as missiles leaving the world and i see houses in a circle around the world. in my proposal for a landmark for rotterdam i see the same issues coming back, but without much scetches like in the turku story. one way or the other the world is my background and my stage for art projects.
making pictures from watersides connects to my earlier works and still is an important source of inspiration. suzanne sonntag wrote that making pictures is a way to get things under control. well maybe i want to do so, with my camera and my phantasy in a playful way.