05/04/2024
“Light your own way” is a conceptual self-portrait created at the end of the first covid lockdown, where finding and lighting your own way through the turmoil of emotions and thoughts literally became the only way forward at a time of great uncertainty. The complete loss of my own creativity during the first part of lockdown furthermore fuelled the fears, but turned out to be a very powerful source of creative ideas at the end.
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Lighting my own way has become a cornerstone of how I think of my own creative journey too. We all have different paths to being an artist, and mine went through a decade long phase of science, before being able to return to my creative roots. Turning this around to be a win of life experience and not a loss of time spent doing art, has been part of lighting that part.
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On a larger scale, this work also represents the transformative power of an artist’s journey on an inner, emotional level.
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My work is the result of decades of tough inner work in order to reach the freedom of expression through art, and most important self-acceptance.
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There is a huge importance of the female gaze at this time - Women telling our own stories, in our own voice, without fear.
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I’m carrying that torch forward for my daughters, and would love to see it carried further out into the world too.
