You started of with creating your shadow sculptures in copper, then subsequently started using aluminium. Why the change?

‘That really wasn’t a conscious choice, it was as if the material offered itself to me. When I discovered that the word ‘minimum’ almost exclusively consisted of spirals, I went looking for a material which would allow me to easily fold this like shadow letters. I came across aluminium: an extremely flexible and light material, plus one which is available in various different levels of thickness.’

Words are still eventually only illusions, even in those aluminium works.

In my work I always opt for the detour of the shadow, the suggestion or the illusion. The work only exists by the grace of its shadow. Lights and shadow cancel each other out. Yet both elements are required in my work. Literature science professor Geert Lernout wrote in his work “The Book” that ‘speaking is so easy for people, as it gives them the opportunity to lie’. I’m not saying my work is deceitful, but I do present people with an illusion: I put them on the wrong track. A body of work which is about reality will undoubtedly also sail across the vast land of lies.’