It’s 09.34 in the morning on september 14th 2019 and I am looking out of the window of the apartment where I’m staying for a holiday in Venice. In front of me is this colorful patio in the neighbourhood of Dorsoduro.

I always wanted to do something with this picture, I love the big tree in the middle and the warm colors of the old houses with lots of windows and blinds. The purple cloth hanging to dry in the sun as a centre of the composition. The picture had something reassuring and soothing to me, as if it says: It’s ‘going to be a good day and everything is going to be allright. I took the idea to produce a puzzle out of this photo just for fun, to keep me occupied in pandemic times in 2020. After I actually had put together the puzzle, I began to think how I could make an artwork out of this image, using the puzzle pieces.

This is how it became a triptych because I started to separate certain parts en made three individual works out of it. It took me quite a while to get it right, because every work had to have the right amount of puzzle parts and the proportions had to be equally divided, so that each work was interesting enough to look at. I started somewhere in 2021 with three wooden panels but left them for years laying in my atelier and always wanted to finish them. I started to work on them again in september 2024 and here is the result. I worked in my usual way of combining painting with collage, using parts of paper, cardboard and other materials.