Archaeology of Myths

An artistic excavation through travel, memory, and magic

I do not want to impose an excessively complex discourse on this collection, nor dress my work in deliberately conceptual language simply to make it appear more powerful. I prefer to let the images, colours, symbols, and details within each composition speak for themselves, allowing each person to approach the work through their own memory, sensitivity, and imagination.

Archaeology of Myths was born from a profound fascination with places where architecture, imagery, and the sacred still seem to communicate with one another. The collection brings together references from ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt, Japan, and India not as a historical or geographical catalogue, but as a personal constellation of temples, deities, symbols, and rituals encountered throughout my travels.

Many of these pieces remain, both literally and symbolically, in a process of excavation. Some have reached us incomplete, eroded, or separated from their original context. Through my work, I reconstruct and transform them, giving them a new presence within the visual universe of Kitsch & Huis.

Behind the intensity of the colours and the abundance of ornamentation, there is always research. Every figure, gesture, object, and incorporated element originates in my study of and fascination with art history. Nothing is included merely as decoration: each detail holds a reference, a memory, or a meaning that has been reinterpreted and adapted into a contemporary visual language.

For me, art history is not a static archive, but a living territory from which to create. Understanding what came before us allows us to recognise where our images originate, to question them, and to transform them. No artist creates entirely from nothing; every artwork enters into dialogue, consciously or unconsciously, with the images, symbols, and stories that existed before us.