When I was born in Konstanz, a small town in southern Germany, Bananas were available again for the first time after the war. It was around 1992 that I started scanning pieces of my earlier handmade collages and enhanced them in Photoshop. That way creative power could be put into the service of creating delirous assemblages, kind of poetical nausea of images. In some way my collages are a dispersion of details on speechless feelings of surprise. By enlarging my "paintings" there might be pieces with smaller and bigger pixelation. I like that. That's just like a different kind of brush stroke for the traditional painter. In many of my pieces accident is the nucleus of visual propagation with multidirectional trajectories. Like an unpredictable game where each randommove generates a new relational order and a new sub context on the whole. the game only ends when you don't surprise anymore playing it. You can call this "Photomanipulation", but in my opinion it's just another way of painting. "The way Digital Art is still overlooked by the Fine Arts world might be based simply on an attitude they held toward a new tool they did not understand." JD Jarvis wrote this 2004 in an article. It reminds me the story of the blind and the deaf playing music together: "Are people dancing already?", the blind is asking - "Why?", answers the deaf, "Are we playing already?" Well, I'm working on answering that question. My paintings are printed on canvas. Sizes and prices on demand.
