WORK
Pavement Studies
The ongoing fusion and separation of everything
Meandering rivers, moving mountains
and evolving clouds
Like the progress of our daily life
The never-ending development
of our pavements, streets and buildings
The surrounding that we
constantly create and change
A fragile construction of reality
Breathless, thoroughly calculated
and blacked out at the same time
My works are dedicated to a fundamental element that is easily overlooked: The ground beneath our feet. Each painting is a portrait of a particular geographical structure; an »overhead view« that does not reveal whether it shows a distant or close environment, a landscape or even an organism.
I am particularly fascinated by »urban geographies«, such as irregularly carved pavements and repaired roads. I internalise these man-made structures that hold our cities together and guide our daily movements and transfer their essence into my painting. I am preoccupied with street and ground coverings that form borders, territories, landmarks dominating our cities and landscapes. How is this structuring of our ground world related to political and social rules? How do our paved streets affect our behaviour?
Likewise, my paintings are related to rock formations and cycles, earth crusts, erosion, lava and moss. Phenomena that are triggered by natural processes on the one hand and influenced by humans on the other hand.
