In the work and miniature world 'EARTH SONG' I let worlds converge and flow in a layered collage. On the one hand, through the art forms used such as watercolour, photography and digital technique, on the other, there are the worlds, skies, heavens and seas crossed and passed over in all possible forms, whether emotional, spiritual or physical. Yet again and again, the big comes together and spills over into the precious because fragile small as just that colour, that incidence of light, depth or shape in which circles may again become circular. Here again, inaudibly silent, worlds of their own are hidden behind the visible, seemingly mundane of a familiar horizon and sky. This is where sun, sea, earth, land and sky come together.
And whoever looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed depths in the light echo of the teal rustling silence. Even though the light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing back to other times when experiencing this perspective was not a given and when one had to fight to make it to the end of every second at all.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) in all its forms through a different window and different point of view, the struggle was more than worth it.
It was the time when the melting water of black snow gradually took on colour. The house overlooking a new horizon stands again on indestructible foundations. The question is what I want on the wall. The images I see pass by like a slide show against and in the.. Read more…