In my determination to go away, in sculpture as in painting, from figurative representation, there is the attempt of going beyond appearances to try to reach the truth of reality, and to convene in my work, the voluptous vibrations of life: that mixture of transience and permanence, or more precisely this permanent transitoriness that makes of life a perpetual miracle.
It is also an act of resistance to our time where we like so much, to make fun, deny, reject and
condemn everything that refers to the sacred and the transcendent.
Those colors that suggest a larger space, I wish they became a song, a cry that awakens and disturbs. That helps me get away from the representation of the world in order to retain just its breathing.
-Thoma Ryse
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