The silhouettes could be seen as the simplest thing I do. I cut out pieces of black paper and stick them down. But, just like a radio play, where one major sense is removed to heighten others, the silhoutettes stir the imagination in their unique way. They are an endless shadow theatre, flashing with mysteries. Everything is left out but the shape and the idea, which is what lets the spirit of a silhouette roam. I began making the silhouettes about ten years ago and do them in batches of 100, when I force myself to stop or I would probably do nothing else. I began my work in our new millennium with a new batch of 100 silhouettes, some of which you can see below. Many of the silhouettes are the basis for linocuts or screenprints, but most are the shadows of a single performace.
