TUSCAN LANDSCAPE
all 100 x 70 cm (39" x 27")
Chinese Ink/Paper, 2006
Beyond Chrysalis: A Responsive Universe
2007 to mid 2009 meant a creative break to me - at least in terms of painting. For almost two years I was frozen like a deer in the headlights of the art market and concerned myself with questions like Art or Luxury, Art and Kitsch, Art and Money. Of course I also found answers: artistic ones (What is Art?) and feminist ones (A new Lilith: about letting go).
And I met a man, right after Polyamournesia, and he quite positively rocked my life. (Sometimes I really think I paint ahead, and then my life just follows.)
Now, summer 2009, I hand the apple of criticism back; yes, it is true, "The Social History of the modern artist is that of a spiritual being in physical world fixated on material possession." (Robert Motherwell). However I do not consider it as my personal challenge to change this.
09_42 (Die Mehrung)
125 x 125 cm (50" x 50")
Acrylic/Canvas, 2009
I am a spiritual being - and am back to painting, in deeper shades of blue now... because if we give room to the autopilot we will move on circular paths and receive the same again and again: a distorted perception of reality, our own projection, overlaying reality.
A Deeper Shade of BLUE...
Biopiracy - or how public property becomes private property: The Broccoli-Case
Currently I pursue another project, a profound one: I started a contemporary approach to the I Ching. And I do it in two quite different ways: one is noetic (the new web site no2do.com is growing - so far German only, sorry), the other one poetic: in my new series SixtyFour Kōans I approach the mystery in an intentional cognitive process. Noetic-poetic approach to the I Ching gives a brief overview regarding my current achievements in this matter.
Occasionally, but with joy, I elaborate installations on political issues as, for example, in the project Biopiracy - or how public property becomes private property. Biopiracy is a process where more and more patents are granted on the common property, such as the commercialization of traditional medicines etc. As the topic is quite complex it receives little echo in the media.