Reflecting

Field Notes is an ongoing series of sketches that take shape on the same surface: a table in the studio.

The title borrows from the tradition of the field notebook, the small book that scientists, explorers and writers carry to record what they encounter: quick observations, rough sketches, things not yet understood. These works follow the same logic. They are not finished statements. They are notes.

These works begin as fresh ideas, based upon imaginary places that feel strangely familiar. A phone box in a field. A bench with no one on it. A tent under a full moon. They arrive before they make sense, and the only way to find out what they are is to build them.

All works are constructed on the same surface, the same table, in the same studio in The Hague, returned to again and again. Each time, a different world takes shape upon it. The ground stays constant. The stories keep changing.

Field Notes is not a finished body of work. It grows slowly, one piece at a time, following no plan. Each work is a sketch of something not yet fully understood, a place between memory and fiction, between what has been and what might have been. Some of these works become the starting point for larger pieces, or find their way into other series. They are notes, but also seeds.