Thomas Amerlynck, Head of Department of Engraving at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Brussels, was born in Anderlecht in 1981. He says, “The aura of engraving has always attracted me even beyond its exercise. Engraving has acquired a sacred format due to its development coinciding with printing and its worldwide best-sellers…. My works are imprints of memories. Most of the time they are connected to characters inside of which structural and nervous marks appear to amplify the disintegration of the shape. Among those features and muddled lines still we will find figurative elements. The tension and confusion between representation and abstraction creates connections in the viewer’s mind whom I leave with his own interpretations.”