25/07/2025
People often ask me: âDo you ever loose your inspiration, your creative spark?ââ
NO. I never lose my inspiration, my urge to create. My obsession for the expression is relentless. There is so much depth and vulnerability in spending time on my own, looking within and around, exploring, experimenting, self-reflecting and soul-searching. Iâve been doing it for over 30 years and I still find that I have too much inspiration: a lifetime is never going to be enough time to create and materialize ALL that is in my mind. And that bothers me immensely. It is a small, persistent thought, that sometimes causes me to rush through my process, because I want to create this and that and more, ALL THE TIME.
Funnily enough, it is the very thing that makes me a not-so-patient person in my day-to-day life, with mundane tasks, because I do not want to loose a minute doing anything else but ART. It is the ironic duality of human existence, the limitlessness of our imagination and the mortal life we are given, that comes with a ticking clock and âendâ date.
There is an immense pride and responsibility I feel towards my work. For everything that I am able to create and for all the artworks that will only ever live in the meanders of my mind. Limitations of my physical output, are frustrating, but never discouraging. Because my creative process is just the tip of the iceberg, it is what lives under the surface, down in the deep, that drives me. It is primal, visceral, boundless and indispensable. And hopefully whatever I get to create in this life will continue to live long after Iâm gone, and will act as a timeless portal into the entire vast universe of my mind.
xx D.
