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
A Love Supreme
2009, just after my personal art-market-crisis, I throw myself into a new, profound project: a contemporary interpretation of the I Ching. In addition to a poetic approach through painting (→ SixtyFour Kōans (a text on the intentional cognitive process) and → Approaching from the West (paintings)), there is now an extensive intellectual part: an oracle game with its own interpretation model based the 5-Element-Theory (→ no2do.com)
2011, my research regarding no2DO absorbed much of my energies during the past months (besides traditional sources of Chinese wisdom I am studying literature on TCM and classical acupuncture) and I ask myself right now probably not without reason: have I become negligent about my painting practice? Is art still my Love Supreme?
A Deeper Shade of BLUE...
Biopiracy - or how public property becomes private property: The Broccoli-Case
Or is my motivation quite generally the pursuit of both, world and self knowledge? Actually, this same motivation has long been present in my work: I am a spiritual being - and paint 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.
[ART is more painting alone!
And yes: Art is my LOVE Supreme!]
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.