HOMO FABER AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE
‘In my wanderings, I discover a culmination in the banality of the everyday.’
The work is a journey of discovery that brings to light almost overlooked compositions. Guided by my instincts, I search among gravel pits, scrap yards, residential areas and front gardens for sceneries that surprise me visually or move me emotionally. I deliberately do not focus on people, but on their traces and what have made and built. The pictures show human habitats as a field of tension between people’s abundant will to create and chance.
When photographing, I often feel an expectation within me, waiting for that special moment. A lot of time passes in the uneventful, monotonous now. This work confronts me with my inner restlessness, my mental abysses and my search for the extraordinary. Time and again I find the interesting in the banal as soon as I put aside my ambition and surrender to emptiness. In quiet observation, the unexpected becomes visible in the banality of the everyday, as if it were masterly arranged.