Discarded
Walking is a form of collecting.
Collecting impressions, fragments, images—coming into contact with our surroundings.
Regular walks through the same area sharpen our perception. One day you notice new curtains in a neighbour’s window, next time fresh bushes in a front yard. A new house rising where there was none before.
The paintings that follow act as quiet documents of these shifts—or better, of their side-effects.
Photographs of construction materials, taken during these walks, served as source material.
Translated into painting, they become ornamental. Junk, rendered beautiful.
But it floats—suspended on the pictorial surface, never fully settling in. Just as the discarded materials never truly belong in the environment.
