In the work and miniature world 'AVALON: A HOMECOMING' I allow worlds to converge and flow in a layered collage. On the one hand, through the art forms used such as watercolour, photography and digital technology, 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, too, inaudibly silent worlds of their own are hidden behind the visible, seemingly mundane of a familiar horizon and sky. Here sun, sea, earth, land air and time come together.
And whoever looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed depths in the light echoing the green rustling silence. Even though the light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing for other times in which experiencing this freedom was not a matter of course and in which one had to fight to reach the end of the day at all. Especially in black, white and grey, in retrospect, looking at the world(s) through a different window, it was all 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…