Magic to the public space.
Art to the people.
A public artwork is a site-specific image or sound just like a viewpoint, a crushed pigeon or a wiggling cobblestone.
The site has its own meaning in the neighborhood. It has a shape, a structure, color and orientation. It may also have cracks, water, lichens.
The blank canvas does not exist in the street.
A public artwork can be an accidental combination of a site and an artwork irrelevant to the users of the site.
A public artwork can also be an autonomous work of art that taps into the uniqueness of the place and its meaning and then enhances it or enters into dialogue with it: this is where my heart beats.
As an artist I take responsibility for the whole process. I look for sites with character or with a story. I listen to the site, I touch the stones. I gratefully observe irregularities such as cracks, tags and plants. I listen to the users of that site. Then I fall in love. And apparently, not just me. Strange things start te happen around my artworks.
I create a passional and layered work of contextual art with mind-opening effects for the passer-by.