#erasing yesterdays thoughts

Oil paint on panelI enjoy taking portraits of young men and teenagers because at that stage of life something special becomes visible: a vulnerability the world has not yet hardened. Their faces and bodies carry an ambiguity within them — they are not fully formed yet, but full of promise and possibilities. What interests me is precisely that in-between moment: no longer a child, not yet a man. In that transition lies a beauty I want to capture, the openness of what can still become and the fr...