"I do my framing in the sketching phase and I make them as tight as possible so that there would be nothing superfluous in the painting… The other [reason for framing my work very closely] is indeed a lesson that I learned from cinematic imagery, that the less you see the more you project. I’d like people to really look instead of just passively see. The fact that you see that there is something that is hidden, that you are not seeing, creates a suspense not unlike you would indeed find in a certain cinema.”
—Henni Alftan