Nowadays, all varieties of classic still lifes have been painted, so I keep searching for other ways to capture the transitory aspects of modern life without the help of decaying food or dead birds. For my latest series, my sketchbook has become a little battered Japanese camera (Digital Harinezumi). According to its manufacturer it is re-inventing what is around us. With its blurs, distortions and inaccurate colours it enables me to add a snapshot quality to my paintings, while I try to illustrate the melancholia and the inevitability of the constant change around me.
