Berlin, July 2022

The year is 2022 and a global pandemic is dominating our lives. My daily challenge is to find a way out of the anxiety and the restrictions.
During this period of confinement and, in particular, the prevailing fear, I worked on 4 paintings (break out, exposed, look into, break through). During the development of these works, I wanted to dissolve and break away from the rigid, rectangular frame and the materials as well.
The clothes pegs are an element used in every picture: they describe paths, they delimit them, they tear apart, open up and make visible what lies beneath the surface.
Another material used are the pages of books burnt at the edges. Letters are an integral part of our everyday life—content characterises and influences our being. Detaching ourselves from any conventional messaging and content and examining whether they have anything to do with me is daily work. Even more arduous is the necessary duty of scrutinising, transforming and even burning the knowledge we have gained—doing it again and again—so that, in the best-case scenario, it can be resurrected as a conscious impulse.
Those who follow this path inevitably come up against their own wounds and limitations and can heal them and seek new avenues.
The way out is a diary entry of my life in Berlin during July 2022
The Way Out
At every moment I stand at a crossroad between:
the beginning and the end
life and death
white and black
either … or
or,
both of these …
and every shade of black and white.
This outmoded either … or has inflicted
too many wounds in recent times
for the earth
and for humanity.
Wounds are moments of consciousness
– through thinking, I can form a relationship to them
between myself
everyone and
everything.
The first healing is to take a step,
– and find the way out.

