QUATRE MAINS / ZONDER HANDEN

On July 20th I drove back to the old house. In the corner of a back-room I found a little box, neatly tucked away under a stack of office supplies. Inside were 36 Polaroids he had taken between 1996 and 2001 as an engineer on a construction site. Looking through the images, I realised I had inherited his way of looking at things. I drove home on the 23rd, after the burial. I unboxed the photos and stared at them for quite a while. A few days later, I made my first picture.

'The work "Quatre Mains / Zonder Handen" was initiated by the need of dealing with troubled emotions and physical pain following the sudden death of my father. The creative process acted as a transcendent healing that allowed me to take my first steps as an autonomous artist.

The resulting book shows itself as a visual dialogue between my late father and me: it is composed out of two separate bodies that form one whole. Both sides can be read individually, but are conceived to be seen together: every page reacts to the one on the opposite side.’

The project is currently in a dummy phase, I am now looking for funding to publish it.