I proceed from the act of drawing itself, which, in my view, precedes deliberate judgement—the act of drawing generates thinking. I like to draw from a certain distance. From my detached perspective, I create a composition with figures, heads, puppets and marionettes. I position them on a sort of stage, a platform or simply on boards. Sometimes I create a black background, which evokes the black cube of the theater, i.e., the darkness from which the public undergoes the different scenes. I want to make the divide with that which we call reality very clear. That is the principal reason why I have chosen to opt for painting as a medium. A painting always represents an autonomous space. The painting is beyond suspicion; it is an instrument of the imagination and—at least in our times—does not aspire to document anything. Michaël Borremans, in an interview with L. Lambrecht, “Michaël Borremans- I am an Avant-Garde Artist!,” FlashArt Online