Projects

JURLJIN

Started in 2020 this is a project whose content and meaning I have not understood completely yet. So this is a place to find out. A place to try out. A place for thoughts and self-talk.
And it’s the attempt to resolve contradictions and to find the silence that lies in between. It’s the search for a place where there is no thinking. It’s the whisper that invites you to dissolve … to become nothing, to dwell in it… and always moving on and on … being nothing… being everything… being just a moment, a breeze… a dream…

---

URBAN

Usually I don’t like photographing urban areas (or spending too much time there for any other reason). But sometimes I try to understand them. Listening to them. Capturing what they say. To engage with it…
Only attempts, beginnings, approaches… trying to find a direction.

---

THE WHOLE

Consists of several single projects, which are already quite complex in themselves. Combining these single projects is based on the assumption that they will eventually meet at one point (respectively are also linked to each other again and again at different points and complement each other). I have no idea if I will ever reach that point where they meet completely and become one. I also have no idea what exactly this point will be – but the desire to find out by following my feeling and my inner images keeps pushing me to continue…

[Of course, the projects can also be considered as stand-alone projects]

Both the overall project and the individual projects are in progress. Nothing has yet found its final form… everything here will change again and again and sort itself anew…

A/1 – THE TILED WALL

I started these two projects (which are actually two parts of one project) in 2019. Up to that time I didn’t consciously think about whether any images belong together and my work was usually based on spontaneous ideas and moods. Maintaining a certain mood purposefully and creating a larger overall picture was completely new to me. And it was interesting and it was challenging … and I felt my impatience and curiosity: will it succeed? Will everything fit in the end?
So first of all I was extremely motivated and I wanted to do a thousand things at a time. But then realized: my time is not enough and it is not possible to do everything at once. I found myself more and more confronted with a bunch of chaos and… well, then I tried to be more patient about it. Unfortunately my further work was interrupted by the Corona crisis and the first Lockdown – and so far I haven’t found my way back to it. I don’t know when the projects are finished (or if they will ever be finished) – but whenever time and mood allow, I’ll keep working on it …

---

A/2 – THE WORLD OUT THERE IS CONFUSING AND STRANGE… AND I PREFER TO STAY IN MY OWN/ I don’t believe in reality

A project that I have started several times in a similar form, then interrupted… and at some point so much time had passed that I didn’t manage to just pick up where I left off….
Nevertheless, I would like to present the current works and beginnings here. Want to explain what it’s all about… and want to give myself a basis to keep working on it. Either in the form of another completely new beginning. Or as a kind of continuation of my “Tile Wall” project (something like: “The Tile Wall – Part 3… After Marriage/Entering a new world”)…

---

B/1 – THREE… AND THE CHERRY TREE

There are three women with very different traits, but a very strong connection to each other. Maybe they are sisters, maybe friends, maybe even strangers. In any case, the connection between them has a meaning… they cannot exist without each other… At the centre of their connection is the old cherry tree in the garden. Blossoming every spring, bearing cherries every summer, shedding its leaves every autumn… and waiting, sleeping every winter. And just as the tree must follow its nature, so must the three women. That is what unites them. That is what separates them. And that is what brings them together again and again…

---

B/2 – MOON, WATER, EARTH AND THE NIGHT

It’s a project I would love to give endless time to, although my thoughts on it are very incomplete and chaotic…
[It is the continuation or a kind of other side of the cherry tree project. Letting go. Arrive.]

A few first thoughts and attempts/ maybe upcoming projects

Thought supports for myself