“At sea you experience things, inhale the impressions. No time for photos and no hands free either. The moments burn themselves all the deeper, becoming an inner image; only to burst out at some point, in the silence of the studio, as a conglomerate of individual parts.”

Gradually it was bubbling inside me, something wanted to come out of me and was burning on my soul. I wanted to paint again, to express this inner hustle and bustle. But the dimension of things in me was too big for my studio and the previous formats...