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Right now I am generally guided by subject matter

which results from ongoing research into different areas

of interest that I have and currently I am looking at im-

ages and videos mainly dating from the early 70's, so

some of my future work could look quite different.

When it comes to the actual painting process I have

tried to define a set of procedures for myself so that

instead of simply copying the image it is more like a

translation, with painting, as a visual language, in the

mix as an active element and where the process itself

plays and important role, so it generates its own errors,

or manual glitches and in a way it celebrates the idea of

human error. It typically begins on paper where I manu-

ally divide up or dissect the image into irregular block-

like sections based on some pre-determined system,

sometimes defined by shape and colour or the detail in

the image and sometimes this is more game or puzzle-

like in structure. Then the image is reconstructed by

painting these isolated pieces one by one building to-

gether almost like a jigsaw-puzzle over a period of

weeks and sometimes months. It is a very slow process,

in fact it intentionally exaggerates the slowness nor-

mally associated with painting. So the element of time

is very important in all of this, the painting in a sense

stretching the image out over time and even though the

final painting could easily be described as representa-

tional or realistic, it is built out of individual pieces that

are often very abstract in nature. For me the act of

making art has always been a little like inventing a

game with its own the rules and then, isolated within

that system, in that world, as the sole player of the

game following those rules, playing along and all the

while pushing at the self imposed boundaries just to see

what happens.