As well as the canvases, from 1999 to 2018 I had regularly painted with oil pastels and oil sticks on watercolour paper. Almost every day in a certain systematic way, I applied a colour to at least one piece of paper. Each piece is composed of three layers of colour. Every day a colour; every day a layer; every paper three layers. One after the other, the pieces of paper represent fragments of time passing.
 
Once they have been painted and dried, the Paper-Diaries are hung on the wall to the right of my worktop.
It takes 112 parts to fill a wall and about a year of my time.
When the wall is finished, my work is done.
Since 2011 the Paper-Diaries have assumed this new form: that year’s wall is placed inside a box coated with a colour that on the outside is inspired by the last piece of paper and on the inside by the first.
The work is always installed so that it recreates the dimensions of my studio wall: 274 x 217 cm.
The chronologically ordered pieces of paper are read from left to right like a piece of writing and become a page in a notebook, a diary.
This series stoped in 2018.


(Written in 2010. Modified in 2022)