On conceptual design, emptiness and coming up with questions.
I profoundly believe something has to change. Now. Today. It’s time to change the game. To think bigger. It’s time for a restart.
But first let me outline how I got here.
My creativity has always been energized by simple words. Words like structure, texture, surface, uncertainty, emptiness, error, imperfection, irritation, alignment, etcetera, form some kind of a blurred field I’m navigating in. During my studies at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund I have created numerous works which try to measure this constantly meandering space. Reviewed from now, works like »germs« (2007), »between shores« (2007), »transform« (2005), »eigenzeit« (2006) and »schonung« (2006) appear like maps, each of them representing one part of this space. I derived, and still do, my inspiration from observing natural and/or everyday phenomena – small impressions from the edge of common attention. I’ve always been attracted by the pure beauty of simplicity, naturalness, profundity and solitude. But underneath, there has always been more: a fuzzy feeling I wasn’t able to phrase adequately. More ›