Statement

The loud sounds of roaring engines, guys in car club jackets, the speaker announcing the next racers, total focus on the dragstrip.

I'm working in my studio, I focus on the drawing, no chance of erasing anything, the ink is definite. I have one chance, like the dragracer, if we fail our effort is lost.

This is the core of my work, the total devotion and concentration in the actual practice where there is no marginal for slip ups. I like this way of thinking; it keeps you on the edge. Many of my themes or motives is also applicable to this way of looking at things, working with groups such as dragracers, Ku Klux Klan or with the dry desert landscapes of the North American west. These three have two things in common: they are all American and there is no compromise or irony for any of them. The deadly beliefs of the klan, the harshness of the desert and the life threatening speed of the dragrace. These are extremes, but I find this way of thinking as something that runs through the American culture as a whole. For me the American way is the way of no turning back. It’s doing it the right way or not doing it at all and that’s what appeals to me.