From a series of 8 drawings. The drawings are the result of 'collage'. The scene in the background is the studio where I lived between 1990 and 2008 together with Petra. You can see here on the phone on drawings 5, 6 and 7. The scenes were not drawn from a photograph. I had a very particular way of drawing interiors. I set up a tripod with a piece of plexi-glass. I just drew what I saw through the piece of glass on transparant paper. The different 'visiting' strangers were other drawings taken from figures I used to cut out from magazines and newspapers. The scenes and the figures were put together on normal paper by using a lightbox. The whole process could probably be done with a computer, but these drawing-collages were 100% analogue. There is a nice thing about drawing on a transparant surface while standing up without a support for your hand and the effects of the different focus distance between the surface and the scene behind. Even in utmost concentration, you discover that as a human being you constantly move slightly. This provokes constant deformation of perspective. This lost of control is in contrast with the fact that drawing through a transparant surface also gives an automatic accuracy that allowes to draw fast without thinking too much. I liked this challenging paradox. For an exhibition in 1999, Atelier 255, I already used the same kind of drawing style. The style also appears in a number of paintings, drawings from around 1997 and in other exhibitions (Ondertussen, Atelier, Ronker)
