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Nature is the foundation of our existence, but it seems like this idea is fading. We are searching for alternatives that are supposed to work in a time when nature strikes against and proceeds without us. We try to optimize it not realizing that it is already perfect. Nature does not need our help. It is working perfectly for a very long time and much better before the human being started. It does something repetitively, without any doubt, again and again, getting even better every time. Repetition and variation are the main idea. We understand intuitively, feel safe and see the pattern behind the things. We feel that this is our environment, this is our planet. We can feel that it would be better to live in symbiosis with the environment. An environment where every little detail matters. Unnecessary to create a new one far away from here - or cyborgs. We are starting to loose the separation between the natural and technical things and the ability to evaluate what is in front of us. Nature is a good example that one thing is always based on another. It does not loose track, continuity and confidence leads to something good. The "failure" is a welcome glitch in a system that never becomes rigid. There is no end and no goal. There is only change.

My work starts as painting and mostly approaches aspects of objects. I see them still as paintings. The process is based on painting and is a comparatively long one. Seen under natural circumstances everything happens in a kind of time lapse and certainly under conditions that apply to everything and everyone. A sort of universal rules. It is a logical conclusion that it turns out in forms that remind us of natural things. It just happens. Confidence in the subject and no fear of making mistakes is an important part of my work. Mostly my works proceed in an unexpected way. I decide out of the moment what comes next. I imagine nature is doing it in a similar way. That is the way how it can adapt to everything. The final picture is not clear in the very beginning. If we consider contemporary influences like GPS and 3-d-printing for instance, you could see my work as a new kind of landscape based painting, even if I would not call myself a landscape painter.