Art stories
Why yellow?
In China, yellow was for a long time the colour of the emperor. For me it is the colour of light, of ripe rice and of the first sun after a grey Dutch winter.
When I make yellow paper, it feels as if I am holding a piece of sun.
How a work comes to life
- I soak fibres and old paper in water overnight.
- Then I grind everything into pulp and add pigment.
- With a mould I lift a thin layer of pulp from the vat.
- I press the wet sheet and let it dry.
- Only then do I tear, arrange and glue the sheets into an image.