Artist: Hessel Nanne Pijnaker
I want to go back into the basic of art; the wild man, the tribesman, the shamanist or in our culture the Witcher, who is connected to the other world. This other world is the unconscious and other states of consciousness, the psyche wich is not contained to time and space.
We dream, we behave like animals during sex, we can get totally engaged in a story, all this is the other world. Art making to me is the inner world manifesting itself to the outer world. That is why I first make and then write down the concept.
The manifestation of the unconscious, the shadow, comes onto the paper and then can be put into words afterwards. But there is a deeper understanding beyond words through the art and this is what I stand for and what we so desperately miss in this perception in a western life.
