Video description: Instagram story in black and white with soft guitar melody and gentle ocean waves. Matthias is shirtless on his stomach in the sand cuddling Mila, a black puppy with white spots on her chest and paws. He kisses her sweet puppy face a bunch and pauses to grin up at the camera.
As a kid, I had a lot of books about painters; I was totally absorbed and obsessed. It’s something that always stayed with me and became more and more of a passion. Every now and then I go back to it when I’m in between shoots. I just rented a studio. I’ll get out there and start making canvases, or I get into the city, pick a wall, and paint it. It has a meditative effect on me because it doesn’t involve so many people.
i'm attracted to people with flaws. i like people that are imperfect—the anti-heroes. i don’t believe in heroes. i think people can do heroic stuff but i don't think people are heroes. i like ambiguous characters that you can hate at the same time, mostly for the same reason you like them.
“Mijn heel leven niks anders gekend dan beesten. Ik heb mij altijd juist gevoeld zoals die stieren. Nooit geweten wat het was om iemand te beschermen. Kalveren, een kudde, gelijk een vrouw, kinderen. Echt moeten beschermen. Omdat ‘t moet, omdat ‘t in uw natuur zit. Ik heb niet wat in m’n natuur had moeten zitten.”
(My whole life known nothing else but beasts. I’ve always felt exactly like those bulls. Never known what it was like to protect someone. Calves, a herd, like a wife, children. To really have to protect. Because you must, because it’s in your nature. I don’t have what should’ve been in my nature.)