The fascination with nature's diversity, especially forms, has always followed me. The hunter and gatherer instincts are strongly present when I am in the wild, and many small finds are put in the pocket and then end up in the studio. I am surrounding me with them just to always have them present or in my sight. I photograph or sketch them just to put them in a different light or take them directly as an inspiration for my painting or a prototype for my sculptures.

Leaving your own lines, tracks and imprints is a way of defining an area, emphasizing something unclear or reinforcing a point, that means you must be aware, and show your intention and imagination. I feel that in the time we are now living, a lot of us pass by, so fast that we do not take the chance to see, admire and connect with the small and simple in reality. The large flow of information of ready-made ideas, the ability to feel oneself and above all leave one's own imprints is weakened or even overlooked. This leads to an inability to stop and let the thought sink into itself in order to gather reality-based experiences in a more reflective, tactile and conscious way.

To lift an object out of its context feels enriching for me.I try to transform the given subject into something completely new to widen the diversity and the sight on nature.The goal of my artwork is to involve and put the viewer himself in an active and creative role, so that he or she can, at my best interpretations, be inspired to lift the gaze from the obvious and already given. I want to re-conquer a consciousness about “nature as our origin” in the spectator.

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