Inspiration

Most of my ideas come to me through daydreams and doodles. I think it would be fair to say I have an active imagination.

A reoccurring theme throughout my work is the future and what it holds for our species. As a child, I believed in God and the afterlife, and the thing I was most looking forward to about Heaven was finding out the answers to all of my questions and seeing the future. (Or rather; being around for eternity to look down on the future as it happened).

Now, as an adult and an atheist, I'm very interested in evolution and extinction. The idea of man as a type of great ape rather than some special blessed being. We're set aside by our self-awareness and use of technology, but still an animal non the less. I believe that this self-awareness puts the onus on us to take care of our planet and the life-forms on it.

With the current focus on climate change, habitat loss, depletion of resources and general ruination of the planet, I do gain some satisfaction in the knowledge that in 10, 30 or 2 thousand years when we're gone, whatever creatures that have survived our reign will continue to evolve and populate the earth. The few living species of plants will eventually split and diversify. An ice age or two will finish the job, completely erasing the evidence our existence.

Don’t get me wrong though— my work is equally about skeletons, big robots and giant squid.