"For me, drawing is when the image has not yet solidified into representation; the sequence between the memory and its documentation. When memories return, I experience them as unfolding in fragmentary sequences that then collapse into a single image – a repetition of one and the same sequence that never returns in exactly the same form.

My drawings are etched onto glass and built up in layers. I then build a machine around them, where light travels through the glass and sequentially illuminates the drawings. Like an optical machine, but without its own memory. I use my film stills of various motifs as my models, but by reducing them to geometric forms I try to peel away the narrative layer to reveal more abstract impressions that allow for the fictitious repetition of memory. As I engrave, the drawing takes its final form. As the diamond stone moves across the glass and my hand occasionally drifts in an unexpected direction, I allow the process to influence the motif. As if the actual geometry wants to shape itself into something recognisable."