"Drawing has a power. I transfer power to the materials, an intention, a feeling and a presence that is captured on the paper. A presence that conveys and creates images, a meeting with a material – the charcoal – creates an intense process: the charcoal against the paper is controlled by the eyes, by the thoughts; by memories that drive the movements of the hand. A tender moment, a mediation when the body and the hand are used as a medium for summoning up images which slumber within me, but which also bear witness to how the surroundings speak through me.

I have seen and experienced how, over the years, the practice of drawing has created automatic movements and reflexive patterns in a form of flexibility, as shapes and lines are built up to convey and organise information that is inside and outside me.

In this series, I have reshaped biographical material and seen how the power of drawing not only sorts, changes and heals inner wounds, but at the same time also creates worlds, beings that work within the confines of their own world."