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AVIVA (2006-2019)
You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please. The circle has no 
beginning and no end, no direction either. Too much freedom causes confusion, so people have come up with their own notion of time that goes “clockwise”, following the hands of time, on a growing scale. Increasing numbers, mounting years. Tic toc.
Death is transformation, like birth. Big events set the clock to zero again. Have you ever felt you’ve experienced a moment before? Relax, it’s because you have. In fact. Before. Or was it after. In order to learn something, our previous self has to painfully shed the skin of previous failed experiences to give our future self some advice for the road. No need to reject or deny the feeling that sometimes you just know. In advance. For certain. Stuff that hasn’t happened yet. Your inner feeling is correct. It’s possible to go there as well.
AVIVA is a circle of life in all its forms. Aviva as a palindrome; a word that moves both ways. A viva, as “up from the dead” in Latin; up from the dead, towards life, in the opposite direction. Despite its static nature, the circle of “Aviva” is not a still life, nature morte, dead nature. The seemingly silent pictures aspire towards life, to light. A moment freezes and time will become nothing but an arbitrary construction, shackles we don’t need any longer.
You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please.

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Clean sheet. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2018 Negative progress. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2016 Mum. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2007 Dad. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2006 It`s all chill. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2015 It`s still all chill. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2015 Broken I. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2016 Broken II. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2017 Perimeter defence. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2016 Memories I. Graphite, diameter 30cm, 2019 Memories II. Graphite, diameter 33cm, 2019 Memories III. Graphite, diameter 25 cm, 2018 Memories IV. Graphite, diameter 25cm, 2019 Memories V. Graphite, diameter 25cm, 2019 Memoreis VI. Graphite, diameter 30cm, 2018 Memories VII. Graphite, diameter 20cm, 2018 Memories VIII. Grpahite, diameter 33cm, 2018 Memories IX. Graphite, diameter 20cm, 2018 Memories X. Graphite, diameter 30cm, 2018 Last knot. Graphite, diameter 100cm, 2017 Magnify your faith. Graphite, diameter 25cm, 2019