she told him the saddest story of her life and he asked her to turn around and smile 

Stars 

Prima di Partire 

Magical Universe reflects the mysteries of the cosmos, which are ever present if we take the time to still our minds and let ourselves be guided to follow its wisdom.


Magical Universe 

Arabian Fire 

My Japanese Serenade 

Pink Whirling Spring is inspired by the beauty, colours and joy of spring, especially by the abundance of pink flowers in our garden and the yellow dust of pollen whirling through the air.


Pink Whirling Spring 

This work is inspired by nature and spring and the feeling of lightness and joy. For the flowers I used a 'drop and pour' technique which reflects this and expresses their weightlessness and movement in the wind.


Purple Greens 

'Free Flight' expresses the urge for freedom. The feeling of hovering high in the skies, above all the problems, the fear, the sadness, the dark, sharp and dangerous "edges" of our everyday existence.

Free Flight 

Perspectives has been inspired by my stay in nature. It reflects the transitions from the sky, to the forest, to the grass, and back again, in a cycle.

Ready to hang, all sides are painted.

I used high quality materials such as Amsterdam and Schmincke acrylic colours and a UV protective finish spray.

This painting is signed on the front as well as on the back and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.

Perspectives 

"Mother" is an unconventional interpretation of the story of creation. The analog series describes an homage to the female body and how, in the eyes of the monotheistic religion, has been created. It shows a romantic and poetic representation of the feminine physical aesthetic. "Mother" is a complex term: on the one hand, it is a woman who becomes a mother and has the ability to give birth to a life. On the other hand, mother earth, who created nature and a home for humanity. This conceptual photo series is a love letter to femininity, to nature, to the woman, and to her beauty. Still, it's not just that a love letter, but rather describes and illustrates a message and criticism of environmental pollution. Mother earth gives us her body. Her body is our home. She gives us air to breathe, water to drink, and earth to life. Her womb is our home. Our only home.


analog medium format photography, 70*100cm, 2021

MOTHER

We've been here before

Being in isolation is a strong limitation of space: The world is closing in, to a few square meters of my bedroom, taking me hostage and restricting my encounters to online zoom meetings.

But while this claustrophobic situation might lock us in a limited physical space, we still have the opportunity to create new, imaginary spaces. Though divided between the distance between Berlin and Munich, Nikolai and I are opening-up this transitional space, by exchanging one image every day as an answer to the previous picture.

The apertures of our cameras are creating a rapture in the border between the inside and the outside, like a door to the forbidden outside world. So even though taken in different cities, the images begin to exist in the same fictional realm, creating an impossible narrative connecting our both lives.

The space between - selection

Being in isolation is a strong limitation of space: The world is closing in, to a few square meters of my bedroom, taking me hostage and restricting my encounters to online zoom meetings.

But while this claustrophobic situation might lock us in a limited physical space, we still have the opportunity to create new, imaginary spaces. Though divided between the distance between Berlin and Munich, Nikolai and I are opening-up this transitional space, by exchanging one image every day as an answer to the previous picture.

The apertures of our cameras are creating a rapture in the border between the inside and the outside, like a door to the forbidden outside world. So even though taken in different cities, the images begin to exist in the same fictional realm, creating an impossible narrative connecting our both lives.




The space between - Thread 2

The space between - Thread 1



"Path of Pins” is a personal, indefinite visual retelling of Red Riding Hood, revolving around the awakening of the primordial and archaic feminine. I use the aspect of retelling and the fluid character of fairy tales to develop new narrative structures, deviating from one universal truth and opening up to a variety of interpretations.

 

In one of the earliest oral versions of the fairytale, which later inspired Charles Perrault to write his ‘Petit Chaperon Rouge’, the wolf asks the unnamed heroine: “Which path will you take?”, to which she responds with her decision to take the path of pins, the more careless and fleeting one – as opposed to the path of needles, the irreversible way of the wolf.

 

This metaphor of pins and needles also relates to how fairy tales are being circulated and treated: Like a butterfly collector, Perrault kills the living, ever-evolving oral tale, in order to present it to the reader in a pose he artificially forced upon it: Not only does he appropriate the story, but he tortures the heroine with his own ideology. While in the early variant of the narrative the heroine tricks the wolf and escapes with artfulness and the help of washerwomen and the forces of nature, Perrault reduces her to a naive girl, and even blames her for her own violation.

 

Through the fluid character of the fairy tale, I want to retell the story without pressing it into a static form: While the photograph is indeed a fixed moment, the interpretation of it, as well as the before and after, is open, and can therefore change. Within and between the images, I want to send the heroine on a new journey, into the darkness, the subconscious, offside the path, to discover her feminine identity through the play adults often unlearn.


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