About a year and a half ago Sabine and I built our own paper hut. Based on a ceremonial house ceiling from Papua New Guinea, we made our own ceremonial ceiling. It became a real paper hut in which you can lie down and look to the stories of the printed ceiling. It symbolizes rites of passage from an old life to a new one. So it’s about saying goodbye; preparing yourself for a new life.

For me our paper hut is a place where the people I always draw, could stay, They are between places: they undergo their rites of passage. Different ones: from childhood to adulthood, to travel from one country to another, from sleeping and dreaming to be fully awake. It’s about these transitions I draw.

I have traveled from one country to another, but I’m still in between, so I would like to built our hut again.