ABOUT MY WORK

My artistic process allows me to work with various media like painting, drawing, dyeing textiles, installations, making books, food and sometimes film.
In my work I visually research the concepts of atmosphere, relational space, ambience and the felt sense and use the term collage as a connection for all juxtaposing methods I am practicing of bringing shapes and materials of different origins together.

When I'm painting I relate to the idea of metamorphosis and the experience of an ambivalent gap between myself and the painting which I explore with the substance paint in its various states. I am interested in the visual exploration of movements and patterns I find in my own thinking and body as well as movements I observe in vegetal beings, like the growing and behaving of plants. My inspiration draws from plant imagery from the late middle ages in Europe, Chinese ink drawings, textile designs from the early 20th Century (Wiener Werkstätte), the understanding of landscape in Chinese thinking tradition and from my personal experiences I have with landscapes.

Whereas my textile installations I understand more as a correspondence with a specific location and the experiential transformation of a site. Working with textiles gives me the opportunity to develop ideas I find in the paintings into a more large scale environment, a direct interaction with space.

With all my work I aim to define intimate spaces, which invite curiosity and imagination to thrive. Preparing this framework guides my concentration to inner places that incite both excitement and calm. These are places that allow me to be still and have the opportunity to listen, while also instilling in me an eagerness to take action. My relationship to the work changes many times. I have to disengage from it in order to expose myself to it. It is only within this dialogue of vulnerability that the work reveals new paths and narrations.