It is not easy to explain a new body of work. Many decisions and reasons identify an object. Some might label The Gospel as abstract and figurative. For us it is essential. This work is not a concept. It is very realistic.

If you would ask me now straight-forward what The Gospel exactly is about, then I would not be able to give a ready answer. Especially while creating the ‘body of work’, there are matters which are more questions, than answers. It is born and lives but we still have to ‘create’ the end….

The Gospel feels like a logical continuation of the cycle: Craft 2001, Oxidized 2003, Perished 2006, Silver Ware 2007, Home Work 2006, Robber Baron 2007, Farm 2008 and Bavaria 2008. As always we have tried to gain, in our own way, creative victories within our oeuvre. Elements in our work that are still unsolved or untouched.

One searches, I think, each time for a different way to visualise the leitmotif.

It might just be that a composition is more expressive that a pattern, an object more important than a product and unique more impressive than massive. But strangely, the most impressive is often very common and the ordinary mostly so complex.

• Job Smeets, 2009