From far away

Where do the ideas come from that give rise to images that seem simultaneously representationally tangible yet extremely enigmatic? In the beginning, there was the memory of children paddling on truck tires in the river, long ago on the rio. Then, from 1996 to 1999, the round sculptural shape of the tires transformed in all directions. Entirely different associations arose: Floating underwater creatures? Serial compositions. Pictorial signs of communicative codes? Fantastic objects between technology and nature? A play of forces between the round and the linear..