Because of my dual background in theology and the arts, I seek a way to establish an articulation between the two. During these last years, however, and without my planning it, I hit upon the technique of wood-cutting. Who knows whether it was purely accidental. Woodcuts are made from a down-to earth, plain material, in a craft way, but does not call for major theoretical efforts nor historical or theological speculations. Wood-cutting belongs to the realm of the senses. It preserves not only the trace of the wood but also that of the sun and water. Wood-cutting as a specific language
The black achieved in wood-cutting is deep and totally opaque; thus it seems to speak an unequivocal language. As a graphic expression it is rooted in the energy of life's own dynamic language. Its forms lend themselves well to convey the meaning of poetry and symbols, particularly religious symbols.
A Gallery of Pictures
This is a selection of woodcuts crafted within the last five years. The first exploration was born out of the stark conditions of the Inuit people. It is in fact about a metaphor. Nowadays, the poles of art and religion are divorced and frigid. This predicament turned into an experience of initiation for me. At the price of a big love, the wood was worked to 'ex-press' a graphic language, precisely at this most inhospitable and cold pole. There is a progression from a quasi-mythological and archaic world to glimpses of more familiar scenes. Flowering alpine Arnica and a landscape of dunes in Brittany give to see a daily world. It blooms, breathes, lives and can be received as God's track.
