WAYS TO ART
I understand my way to art as a process, the interaction with the wood as a dialogue. My forms are reduced and designed for effect in the whole.
My works, which are always very personal, make the viewer an intimate ally who can be touched, just as the wooden sculptures want to be touched.
SCULPTURES
2022
Bronzen
The bronzes are a series of three works on the themes of dissolution, surrender, withdrawal, with which I explored the material. Unlike wood, it demands unambiguity and yet in the end does what it wants. The processing after the casting, the shaping of the finished surface, the patination are strongly in the foreground and occupy a large space in the creative process.
2018
Die Körperlosen
A series of three works to date that defy complete contemplation. The body stands out in the clothing and yet there are no uncovered body parts - neither head/neck, nor hands/arms, nor feet/legs. "I am there, but not here"
2018
Brandfrauen
A series of four works to date, featuring women in black, with different surfaces. This surface envelops and veils. It remains unclear what was, what is missing, what is suspected, what is yet to come. What should/would still be said, heard, seen? What means to give away? Gratitude, melancholy, joy, melancholy. The black, created with the flame, stands for leaving behind, passing away, but also for purification and transition to the next, to the new. It stands for the welcome next step and at the same time for the melancholy to leave something behind. "Transition to the new beginning"
In Die Tiefe
Seit 2019
A series of 5 works so far, approaching the same dream in different ways. Different aspects are illuminated: the fish, the chaos, the relationship, openness, tenderness, silence, the impossible, the reclusive, the haltless. "Seelenkunde"
2019
Gebunden
If the series of "Bodiless" was about the self-determined being there but not here, the three works here are about the missing space in/of the outside. The surfaces are pale, the cracks only sparsely filled. It is already cramped and still too little. "Seat without space"
Seit 2021
Depression
A new series of only three works so far, to be created in different materiality. The inexplicability of this state, the incompatibility of the inside and outside should be expressed, the impossibility of recognition, the misinterpretation, the misreading, the misinterpretation. "outside - inside"
Seit 2015
Hervortreten
In the loose series of works on this generic term, which were created in different phases of life, transitions, the peculiar and the accompanying uncertainty / confusion are thematized - states that get their space in all creative periods. "Transitions"
Seit 2007
Fragmente
A series of body parts and excerpts from body parts that focus on details of the human face. It is through the focus on one part that a new look at the whole is set. "look closely"