On the occasion of a seminar for pupils and students who want to study English and Latin, I created this picture, combined with a story that takes the participants through “Dungeons and Dragons”. Perhaps the […]
What a Lady
The same woman, once with a wig, once without. Is a woman only a woman if she wears long hair? Can this unsettle the person’s self-perception, who feels like a woman and wants to be […]
Evening mood on Falckenstein beach
When evening comes and people leave the beach, it becomes quiet. Every now and then a bird can still be heard in its nest. Then it gets dark. The sun goes down. 2025, watercolor, 30 […]
རླུང་རྟ་
The title in Tibetan characters means “wind horse”, in transcription “rlung rta”. In German and English, people like to talk about Tibetan or Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags. But wind horses are something else. They are […]
Asanga and the Dog
During the Seven-year Systematic Study of Buddhism (1991-1998) at the Tibetan Center in Hamburg with Geshe Thubten Ngawang, I heard the story of the Buddhist teacher Asanga for the first time. Asanga meditated for 12 […]
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Buddhist Teacher, Pastoral Counselor
This portrait is a tribute to Ayo Yetunde. She is not only an impressive woman, Buddhist teacher and theologian, feminist and author, but also works intersectionally and in interreligious dialog. However, like any portrait, this […]
Bird, Chaos Catastrophe
The bird is cut out of an old T-shirt. It looks suspiciously at its surroundings. It is not an environment in which it can live. It is colorful, in the primary colors blue, red and […]
The Colorful Dharma Birds
Inspired by a reading of a text that Konen had read at the 4th IQBC, an image arose in my mind that was meant to be on the canvas, see iqbc.org/schedule-2024/.I had inherited Meyers Konversationslexikon from […]
Dance of the Hurricanes
In the 1960s, floods in Bangladesh were on the TV news every year. Bangladesh has long since stopped being an area of interest. In the meantime, “climate change”, as it is downplayed instead being called […]
Fractals, chaos, Mandelbrot set
Through books such as “Fractals and Chaos”, Herbert Zeitler & Wolfgang Neidhardt, Darmstadt 1993, through articles on the Mandelbrot set, through my affinity for science fiction etc., this image of structures that repeat themselves arose, […]
The Wisdom of the Rainbow Snake
An old pair of blue jeans is glued to a canvas and then wrapped in plaster bandages so that the jeans stand upright. The jeans, painted with acrylic paint and labeled “Make Love not War” […]