Interviews

At the Reitveld there was an interesting thing when I studied there. Fifty percent of the people went to Schoonhoven – which is a really solid technical education. And the other fifty percent had never experienced a technical education. It took them an equal amount of time – two to three years – to untrain, to decondition. All of these people with a technical background, who were making a piece about a relationship let’s say, thought immediately of hinges and they had ten different ways of illustrating that relationship. People who didn’t have the technical background had clear ideas, but struggled with the realization of their ideas. So they were both handicapped, but in different ways. Learning is dealing with the handicap. more...

I will be happy if I can work in my studio most of the time and explore new ideas and materials. I would like to work cooperatively with other jewelers and work for the art jewelry field in Sweden and in other countries. more...

I think being trained as a jeweler has a huge impact on my curatorial practice. When I look at objects I think about the fabrication, I think about the making. I'm very tuned in to materials, form, weight and tactility in a way that did not come from my art-history training at all. In art history we're taught to look, in anthropology you're taught to think about use and cultural place, but it really is through the years of making that I became tuned into the physical and bodily experience of objects. more...