In the series 'Things that struck me' Erik Pape shifts his focus from the architecture of the arched viaduct at Place Stalingrad to apparently insignificant things he observes on and around the square.
These range from shoes, cooking utensils or vases in shop windows, the plat du jour in the bistro to a city clock, mattresses of clochards, signs and discarded furniture. Erik Pape isolates these images and sets them against a coloured background, which puts the banal and prosaic of urban space in a new light and re-enchants it.
In his most recent works Erik Pape paints plants and flowers such as trout, vetch and yellow iris that he finds close to home and puts in a vase at home. This brings his own hometown of Delft after Paris into his paintings.