http://www.meikenixdorf.com/ 2023-02-27 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/df09cef80358810eebc251ea11ee82c9_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/258b87ccc0404baebaeaa5541166d5c3_hd.jpg Virtual installation view "The Gap of TIme - Trees", 2016 Two channel video installation, 3.34 min, loop / Stones by artist Kan Yasuda https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/fd7400c5396e123eba2ed9d7baa022b3_hd.jpg Virtual installation view "The Gap of Time - Hill", 2016 Single channel video installation, 7.43 min, loop https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/6a301569a7cbfb0ac50a8f69c51d3c54_hd.jpg Virtual installation view "Ambiguous", 2016 Single channel video installation, 3.07 min, loop https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/25ee5d3078bc45cd1a2696ca7a57488e_hd.jpg Plate #01, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/572d2dd33c75a095fd278f4ca6b4cc0a_hd.jpg Open, 2010, 100 x 85 cm The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon." https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0cc37dd0952e14eebfdf649b93946837_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 01, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/46b57f0ae0f7d5ddc2e8ac8757daf020_hd.jpg Tao, 2009, 380 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/aca113d43aedc29c02b96af55adf159d_hd.jpg # 01 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/324ba8a04dfca9c2ecd66f667914d1fe_hd.jpg Empire, 2007, 130 x 105 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/af5c0cb5f18e2b85c58e62928f611363_hd.jpg Still frame from "The Gap of Time - Hill", 2016 Single channel video installation, 7.43 min, loop https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/60a450f1f05ab8f4c8e3e41f0017ebba_hd.jpg Still frame from "Ambiguous", 2016 Single channel video installation, 3.07 min, loop https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/670f6e0f7e695157e60c755d87a5a1c0_hd.jpg Plate #02, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9855842545c72f6b10bf6458ba097e02_hd.jpg Behind that Horizon, 2010, 100 x 85 cm The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon.“ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/887e84266c9fe7d871e2456bf49a0c4d_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 02, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2235a3134bf13c8b743ae3a9fd00261a_hd.jpg Haleakala I, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/e933284f01143f40b115decc38462788_hd.jpg # 02 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/9d589d8fb87e2fa3e8712807c5baf336_hd.jpg Untitled I, 2007, 65 x 50 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c734259561a0e85ff02ab6053ec6638b_hd.jpg Plate #03, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4a67a875e777e01d1ace3d1549ccbc8a_hd.jpg Rising, 2010, 100 x 85 cm The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon.“ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/40327a9318edd2d4fc5528412f5d751d_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 03, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2ac3ac0072bcfba190d64b9398bee45c_hd.jpg Montanas del Fuego, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/bed6c3b44934f3acc28f4acb0291785f_hd.jpg # 03 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/3d7ca3d84f82c84656ed286fc320deea_hd.jpg Grand Yukselis, Izmit, 2007, 65 x 50 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/cb07b01f3343a97eb26f1f6fb666a324_hd.jpg Still frame from "The Gap of Time - Trees", 2016 Two channel video installation, 3.34 min, loop https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1f1abebbfdc300ecde3b462cbecbe3e0_hd.jpg Plate #04, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/20e65b9838736defdc4f6dfc378c820a_hd.jpg Reflected, 2010, 100 x 85 cm The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon.“ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5ae5d68351bb961ceb4c2d8474667435_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 04, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/63d29665963fd867b6193f38b035854e_hd.jpg Haleakala II, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/88ca79958ab19bbce918808db1a901bc_hd.jpg # 04 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/5c462e9a1544ae9a7e3bdc756ceaf894_hd.jpg Untitled II, 2007, 65 x 50 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a26cfdd055730ffc0fd112753304871d_hd.jpg Plate #05, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6eba0d115ee1da3075d6f04eda01833a_hd.jpg Still, 2010, 100 x 85 cm The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon.“ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f158c9690975565809f0d0b5ed0774a5_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 05, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/4185cc65d68a91b9643636d237d1b8c8_hd.jpg Video still from "Ocean Still", single-channel video, 2.21 min The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/b376e00d2b0b4b2fe1460a589ae910f0_hd.jpg # 05 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/9c64a354215d70c1ecd2726b40374b3b_hd.jpg Video still from "Breathing", single-channel video, 3.29 min The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a547964b9ca079b2bb4357a62c443413_hd.jpg Plate #06, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c8061152ceb58bcc4557f3a1fd9268cb_hd.jpg Closure, 2010, 100 x 85 cm The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon.“ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ab1205307cc8a742762975f98a488adf_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 06, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bc8b388e9ccb4838cc1b1ec70622514d_hd.jpg Napali, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/85ae8fa04767c6abb074141f4d73fdb0_hd.jpg # 06 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/bfa735fdb95f2a46e628391837f6c3aa_hd.jpg Behind Glass Hilton - Triptych, 2007, 205 x 40 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1bcd707f010c94e5dd6371ad91e54df1_hd.jpg Plate #07, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ab1a1bb94cd0926bbaeed7e4091599a5_hd.jpg Ashore, 2010, 100 x 85 cm The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon.“ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9bb95df31c32a6af5453329c4c1e2adb_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 07, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1a5ae2eab6c7975ab134502e18a504ea_hd.jpg La Graciosa, 2009, 310 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/c4b3a9283df90f041703dd2e65df8d7f_hd.jpg # 07 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5781155320e58c6906874eef75d963bd_hd.jpg Light, Outside - Diptych, 2007, 90 x 32 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/79a719112ba864b9a462d1cefd2d398d_hd.jpg Plate #08, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/8d821ba43f67bbb67a156966ad18be24_hd.jpg Videostill from "In the Waters", Single-channel video, 2.30 min The project “Once, I Left the World Behind” deals with a suggestive and poetic approach to the idea of the endlessness of the world in juxtaposition to the finite human life. „We were out by the baltic sea one day. An ocean that lies calm and flat like a lake on a beautiful day.It was stormy and the waves came rushing in, pushed by the wind like the trees on the rim, high above the waterline, reaching for the sky. There was a daunting sound, amongst those trees, like the earth was moving, the end and yet the beginning of the world. We wandered along the top of the hillside, right on the edge between the land and the sea. There it lay, eternity. These waters behind the trees followed by more water and the sky. Another behind, another after. The land, the sea, the land, the sea.Right outside my horizon.“ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f7531b79ce9f336f0a80f41e5a0ab613_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 08, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7d8ac6d05cbbe3e3336214367980de6e_hd.jpg Famara I, 2009, 410 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/017390c0d11b2fb4a6d5e84e232f7a55_hd.jpg # 08 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/81848cf91b7144ad5993ecd76c5dba4b_hd.jpg Video still from "The Turning", single-channel video, 3.08 min The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/96a075c1a7fb8e3ab8d9118fbdd79aec_hd.jpg Plate #09, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6d79e86775a9d2f63a666b32b215a7db_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 09, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/8a3a9ca2c3c38aea269f06625c652773_hd.jpg Video still from "Flower Still", single-channel video, 11.25 min The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/0f1730556f7dd87bb85b10be450334a2_hd.jpg # 09 40 x 30 cm https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/c6fb10c34bfc275b10a901ec5f620e01_hd.jpg Adagio, San Francisco, 2007, 78 x 60 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55d2e73d1adc58ffdbfcc525ea3d327d_hd.jpg Plate #10, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/166e392a807bfad273a9df1d9af6705f_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 10, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b5fc19360b2be54e4fe190069f0af45e_hd.jpg Famara II, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/9cd95c8d394d024afb04ae6e677e2a13_hd.jpg Tableau https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/54a95c7bf8f29b656d283341b91a8dd0_hd.jpg Michael and Rachel, on a Sunday Before Their Breakup, 2007, 78 x 60 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/01b0809eaed792e25d292ba68cf32f09_hd.jpg Plate #11, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f0a13d8d9dbd78e2d86ba5ce19725f2c_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 11, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/494026ff10da0d42321721f74220a0de_hd.jpg Video still from "Cloud Still", single-channel video, 2.30 min The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1da9710a6fa38577ea36cd07be95e7e3_hd.jpg Sarah and Richel, a Day After Their Breakup, 2007, 78 x 60 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5bb6c18412462551394a9d56f51e0b9f_hd.jpg Plate #12, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f2b6420da1a195a195ce9babeb074d57_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 12, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/5da791fa8900995d0a9c021289c24b73_hd.jpg Video still from "Sun Still", single-channel video, 2.45 min The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/557c4720a5f2601e18848000737e8ec3_hd.jpg Sunset Marquis, Los Angeles, 2007, 78 x 60 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4d0b4bcb101224056ea9214ae30a80e3_hd.jpg Plate #13, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/cb22e20edd8263690c046cf7d61550e5_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 13, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/016914320e1706193f1402aa9e6b7aa8_hd.jpg Sangre de Cristo, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/69b5793f1486661e143aca3fac1ae5d5_hd.jpg Ritz, Phoenix, 2007, 78 x 60 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/de3041b0f4113a582f352a7612d69350_hd.jpg Plate #14, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/424be6edecb1eb441dac37533e2f2b95_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 14, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/185cad165fd1db06a3c3192f91ed8be9_hd.jpg Waiokihi, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/03f43bc32ed909b65b1b1c1e623afc15_hd.jpg Death on Green, 2007, 130 x 105 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/81ed0ab4a88b93909ecaae57b2ea93f6_hd.jpg Plate #15, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/43d77b7db433fd0542f45af6c263fe7c_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 15, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ea91bf970aa08a02c576c6b93c90e4b3_hd.jpg Koenigssee, 2009, 270 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/c76146e4af669abc842065fd2e2e362c_hd.jpg Hanalei Bay, 2007, 130 x 105 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b480eb0f96ea1892d93991566c523c93_hd.jpg Plate #16, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3bbebc37cbd0872ee0943fc8fd7b2c7b_hd.jpg El Teide, view # 16, 2011, 130 x 105,5 cm From 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. Only then Earth´s sphericity could finally be proofed. What does this say about our perception ? The project "In the Orbit of El Teide" is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective. The project focuses on the question of what can be seen, or how much information can be gathered, from only one single point of view, versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way, two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel tremendously and might not even be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one-by-one that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories-to-be-told there are to just one single mountain - or to any subject matter, basically. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4f269ed6e0e5fe3dd8b469ea7dc06f00_hd.jpg Watzmann II, 2009, 410 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/eb1bd320402eb6ba7ed6687b8b65768b_hd.jpg Palm Tree at Sunset, 2007, 130 x 105 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/073be7a6d5042d12d419b5c7038e0915_hd.jpg Plate #17, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/25679c1ea29bed375ebe2fbdd1139d47_hd.jpg Installation View https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5f48c541aacfe43f494c9ce3d3ee20ce_hd.jpg Watzmann I, 2009, 310 x 105,5 cm The imagery in the project "The Point of View" is an exploration of places and spaces. What is it that I find, that I look at, that I study and react to when I first enter an unfamiliar place. What do I see on my second or third glance? How does an image and thus the sense of a place I get from that image change, when there is a slight or major variation in the framing, angle, viewpoint ? Similar to a reflection, when paired or put together in triples, these images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene, some with slight differences, some altogether different but with subtle repetitions. In this way the photographs represent fragments of visual details, where as the video with its almost bleached out imagery, brings in additional pieces of movement and sound. I like to think that through this solitary study of image, movement and sound and the variations and repetitions within the imagery and what lies between them one can get a more complex understanding of the nature of a place as well as the nature of the viewer. The photographs and videos tell stories about different places I visited between the years 2006 - 2009 and more specifically the way I read these places, page by page, click by click, image by image; document how they slowly unfold before the eye. For me there is not only one precisive frame, not only one possible point of view. It arises from in between these different fragments - angles, framings, viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes reflection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/efbfa6ecb0a7b2f019c79585e0dc30e4_hd.jpg Apnoe #11, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9f88d97ceed8949e9729646d22bdee0a_hd.jpg Plate #18, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ab2de20eb0ac988a104dba57d8d39e1d_hd.jpg Apnoe #7, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b1a2d66d189e1c7b25cc9649a902d084_hd.jpg Plate #19, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a8a7241aa1d31462b7b5344e9d420515_hd.jpg Apnoe #6, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/14718eb63f3b66f360a387f916d52adb_hd.jpg Plate #20, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/e85ef3c1013178c95262987696d5b340_hd.jpg Apnoe #2, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f82d484ef6681a70deba621558d8762a_hd.jpg Plate #21, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3c7e9ff55f6b217d9df7ad2eb00df072_hd.jpg Apnoe #4, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2b08e4740486524e43a93b649022a5c9_hd.jpg Plate #22, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4397607af39434341fbc67ada0c7c66a_hd.jpg Apnoe #3, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fdfb807be2d6a1d298489d470a2359c4_hd.jpg Plate #23, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/9fe8c03c7aeebda3c363068d286e4fcf_hd.jpg Video still from "From A Distance", single-channel video, 6.58 min The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9a05631c1dc9e0a135973b02927de312_hd.jpg Plate #24, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f4885ffa5c0277e6149ad3e8daffab6c_hd.jpg Apnoe #8, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/63399e88f4ac40dd3539b4c302096a61_hd.jpg Plate #25, 2015, 80x80 cm The Alps rise every year on average by about 1-2 mm. A transformation not visible to our eyes nor physically noticeable. What does this say about our perception ? The project Your Earth Transforms is a visual and philosophical approach to the notion of our (non)perception of very slow change. It focuses on visualizing transformations of the earth´s crust which have taken place over the past million years while also pointing towards a potentially increasing activity of the crust caused by the effects of climate change. Based on 3D-renderings by Google Earth from various satellite imagery, the project shows details from different mountain ranges in the Alps, the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hawaiian Islands. The images display their respective shape at a certain point of time. A frozen moment - yet there is a sense of change and movement. The earth´s crust, a combination of solid rocks, might seem safe and stable. Yet it is sensitive, affected by constant movement and transformations. Changes we don´t physically perceive can easily be overlooked. It is a matter of perception but even more so a matter of awareness. There is no status quo. The earth - our world - is in a perpetual state of flux. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e82e3d5b21ed1e6b79535dad82675b1b_hd.jpg Apnoe #5, 2007, 40 x 30 cm The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/59343e85ec70c635f6a1636306bca29b_hd.jpg Video still from "A Story From the Sea", single-channel video, 6.14 min The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/6a18f59f5ddc6996b080b6de056089f5_hd.jpg Video still from "Two-sided", single-channel video, 7.47 min The imagery of "In the Meantime" is an autobiographical fiction, made of visual short stories, memories, moments relived. The photographs and videos are set at a time I felt suspended, floating, waiting for something to happen, to change the state I was in. It was a time of condensed and relived memories from the past, a dreamlike repetition of situations I had encountered during my life. During these years I traveled the United States many times and later on lived in New York. A city with its own rhythm, a very fast, harsh and continuous pace. Many times I lost my breath and only found refuge deep down inside myself. A very lonely space at times but then it was where I found all these almost forgotten memories and longings, reflected in the places and people that I was surrounded by. At times a dark but in the long run an empowering and vivid encounter. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/55253/29b6b0c21c4d9c793066ff7b1ec0ef2a_hd.jpg Installation View Museum Kuenstlerkolonie, Darmstadt, Germany2010 http://www.meikenixdorf.com/biography 2025-08-01 weekly 0.5 http://www.meikenixdorf.com/articles-interviews 2017-03-21 weekly 0.5 http://www.meikenixdorf.com/video-documentary 2019-11-07 weekly 0.5 http://www.meikenixdorf.com/contact 2021-06-25 weekly 0.5 http://www.meikenixdorf.com/data-protection 2020-08-31 weekly 0.5