Extract from a letter to E.V. 2002
The Trash-Art-Series has nothing to do with social criticism, neither is it a protest against consumerism. It is on a different plane, more to the tune of: "And that which keeps the world together in its innermost" (Goethe, Faust part 1)

These Trash-Art images - pictures of refuse randomly piled up in tiers - appear to me to show a remarkable order. Out of these images it appears that structures evolve, a process akin to nature. Structures which divide and split again into smaller and smaller units. They obviously follow a set pattern, a phenomenon which is also found in informal painting.

In mathematics a whole scientific area - the chaos theory - deals with discerning patterns and structures in the suppposed chaos of our environment. In defining structures which relate to themselves, mathematicians create worlds in which they virtually probe deeper with a magnifying-glass, finding there the same structures and patterns.