ARTIST STATEMENT

My work can be characterized by a realistic way of illustration. Until 2013, the central subject of my work was the creation of self-portraits in a way that the most essential characteristic, my face, remained invisible in all cases. Currently my self-examination process extends to my surroundings; my models are either banal objects surrounding me or earlier paintings of my own. My compositions are puzzles: the traces of personal memories, experiences, moods and thoughts each condensed into an object-composition. One uses motives and colors in which they can discover themselves; I view the still lifes thus created as self-portraits.