The pandemic has been a daily topic for more than two years. “The daily bread”: mandatory masks, lockdowns, homeschooling, home office, protests, corona deniers, vaccinations, depression, loneliness, violence, and, and, and… There seems to be […]
Acrylic
Waterfall
A person, sitting under a waterfall, meditates, surrounded by water and barely visible. The waterfall pours down on the meditating person, who bathes in it, and enjoys the bath in the cool water.In the visualization, […]
Scylla and Charybdis
Strange how an idea takes on a life of its own: the painting began with the memory of JRR Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and the threateningly blazing eye of Sauron emerging from the […]
Take a deep breath and sail…
A meditation via zoom by James Young (queerzenmeditation, LOFT, New York, US) moved me to the canvas. The idea was to focus on the breath, forcing nothing, but to sail, like on the water between […]
Big Bang(s)
Interested in astronomy and fascinated by science fiction, the universe, and the idea of possible multiverses, this work was created. Black holes, supernovae, and explosions that release or swallow energy and possibly erupt it again […]
Now and Then
For as long as I can remember, I didn’t seem to fit into the image of what society considers common for a girl. Inspired by an old photo of me riding a tricycle when I […]
Hommage to Them.
I created this painting with its expressive colors because I was impressed by a person I know only virtually because of the pandemic. The goal was not a portrait or photograph but to capture all […]
The Great White Shark
This piece was created as a collage because I realized that the T-shirt had become too small. But I am reluctant to just throw something away and to produce even more garbage in today’s – […]
Should – Could – Would – Do
I used words that I cut out of the fabric of a T-Shirt that became too small to create this collage. I wrote questions in English, but from right to left, mirror-inverted. People like to […]
DJ Jampa Sausage and Friends
For the past twenty years, I have been writing raps in different languages (German, English, Latin, French). I use this form to engage with my audience and/or my students and to encourage thinking. The topics […]
The Last Seven Days of Humanity II: Fires.
The climate catastrophe is very apparent this year: Floods, a pandemic with ever new mutations, temperatures rising to 50 degrees Celsius, and firestorms.Politicians, however, continue to rely on coal and other fossil fuels instead of […]