Transformation in Motion
Transformation in Motion offers a current overview of what is happening right now: work in progress, studio experiments, recent exhibitions, and short updates. It provides a behind-the-scenes view that shifts along with the work.
What you see here includes studies, test setups, sketches, brief notes from the studio, and recently shown or upcoming presentations.
Click the images to open each transformation and explore the underlying processes.
December 2025
Naming–Value Butterflies
This new project starts from existing drawings. By cutting out the name and date, new forms emerge: value-butterflies that do not carry the image, but the proof of authorship. What usually sits small in a corner yet often determines everything becomes the body of a new species.
Virtual Grids
To the project Virtual Grids (started in 2001), I’m adding new transformations, starting from the reworking of the canvas The Desert (2001). I’m bringing this together with a second canvas that already carries traces of transformation from its use in my studio.
After some study and testing, I can now animate the virtual grid figure; in 2026 I’ll develop this technique into a series of 3D animations.
The Divider (worktitle)
Work continued on this canvas: the first two drawings I used for the project Naming–Value Butterflies have now been permanently attached. The leftovers were burned; the axes have been added as a single strip along the bottom edge of the canvas. The idea is shifting toward flames—the drawings are cut in such a way that a fire-like form becomes visible.
November 2025
The Divider (working title)
The piece began as a play between left and right, an ambiguous choice placed at the entrance of the exhibition. In the studio, green and red flowed apart, later shifting into metal and flesh.
Two drawings — Robotman and Hanging Man — found their place within this field.
The photo shows the most recent intervention: the burning of the edges.
September 2025
Signature of a Rhinoceros
A drawing from 1995, a 2006 oil painting, and a canvas from the Melting Targets project were brought together, taken apart, and rebuilt.
What began as a scene of revenge evolved into Signature of a Rhinoceros: a reborn image where traces, folds, and layers form a new story.
August 2025
Noise Preacher
Noise Preacher emerged from an old oil painting of George W. Bush, combined with a canvas that had, over time, collected spontaneous traces of use in the studio. Those marks suggested noise: disruptions that are now widely deployed to create confusion and division.
The painting was stitched onto the abstract canvas, forming a foldable image in which the preacher becomes more or less visible.
Scoring with Goals
The canvas MT.4.8 from the project Melting Targets was combined with two earlier works: Shooting Apples for Dogfoot (2004) and Warning Bullet (2003). The three canvases were sewn together and share the same theme of the goal. From now on, the work reveals itself on both sides.
Update video: Drawing in Motion
This is the latest layer from the project Drawing in
Motion.
The video work has been updated through August 2025.
July 2025
Transformation Room Photos
My former living room now functions as a small exhibition space where I show ongoing transformations. The setting is more restrained than my studio—without the abundance of materials that have their place elsewhere in the house. That calm makes it possible to present ideas in a more finished, yet always temporary form. In this way, a familiar living space takes on a new role within my working process.
Saturn to the Sahara in Lommel
In mid-July, Saturn moved from the Kristalpark to the Sahara, the vast sand and nature reserve in Lommel.