Vicco von Bülow or, in other words, Loriot, German cartoonist, humorist, actor and professor (1923-2011) said, “Life without a pug is possible, but pointless.”For me, this applies to dogs over a certain size.A dog is […]
Acrylic
The Endless Knot
The endless knot stands for the unity of wisdom and method, which only together lead to the state of Buddhahood. Everything is connected to everything else. This is the principle of cause and effect, actio […]
Underground Railroad
Originally, the Underground Railroad was a secret network of slaves in the southern states of the USA. They used it and the network of people, paths and safe spaces to flee to the northern states […]
“Splish Splash” – Shower in Colors
When the shower had to be renovated and the shower curtain had to be reinstalled, some parts were left over to be reused in the form of a Dadaist work of art. Two old pallets […]
One Planet, One Human Species, Undivisible Human Rights
The world is colorful. The world is diverse. This planet would not exist without diversity. And regardless of whether we are talking about the environment, nature, plants, fungi, animals or humans, we are not clones. […]
Hypercube
Inspired by a SyFy movie “Cube 2: HYPERCUBE” as well as the cubes drawn by an artist friend of mine, Noire LaZard, I created this painting.Painting the cubes in complementary colors had something meditative on […]
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 […]
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, […]
Going by beetle VW
A guest from the USA stayed with me some time ago to, as she said, “get out of the comfort zone”. Europe and Germany were something completely new to her. We drove around in my […]