Watercolor turned into relief and sculpted paper.
The recent works prepared for this exhibition move yet another step further and utilize the interaction of cellulose fibres and various processes. Paper as a ground of artistic represen-tation is replaced by large sheets and blocks of cellulose, the intermediate material of the production of paper.
The delicate movement of the artist´s brush is replaced by the forceful action of an axe and the semi-autonomous processes of carving, soaking and burning. The blade of the tool, coloured liquid or fire carve violently their way into innocent whiteness of the cellulose blocks. Snow is set on fire, white corrodes into black, light erodes into shadow. In some of Heuwinkel´s pieces cellulose is used as a material for moulding, a fibrous white clay, as it were.
His recent works are images of primordial geology. These traces and signs of processes lead one´s thoughts to the images of animals and men painted six thousand years ago on a vertical rock face in the vicinity of the Verla Mill. Or are they, perhaps, traces of sacrificial offerings? The image of white paper is so persistent, however, that even these products of physical processes still continue to read as watercolours.
Prof. Juhani Pallasmaa, 2001