A Selfmade More-Reality

I search for possibilities in painting to create images that are more real then 'real'. It is not at all about hyperrealism, it is about finding a way to a selfmade 'more-reality' with the use of both abstract and 'realistic' painting; trying to find a synthesis. The paintings, which I see as 'scenes', can be seen as a way of recording constructed places in which sometimes people occured a moment ago, altering something for an unknown reason. Their (lack of) actions are still noticible. The elements of and in the scenes take over. These constructions become in charge. Over time the spaces themselves create another purpose then what they are ment for. The way (artificial) light is shining in the scene is an important factor that determines the state of the scene.

The psychiatrist's room, a hospital bed, a corner in a hotel lobby; they are capsules in which one can hide or must recover from the day-to-day world, as a network of nests, a layer beneath the infrastructure of traffic and social interaction. The capsules can be a preperation or temporary pressure cabine before adaption in society, as a quarantine. At the same time it takes part of that same environment, it is interweaved. The layer beneath, layer -01, is a state that can grant access to a consciouness about what is more real then 'real'. I see the ultimate reality I am searching for as something that has to do with Georges Bataille's Inner Experience, all staged within the vacuum of the canvas.