The works are created on metal surfaces, where brushed and polished steel meets the organic textures of rust.
In combination with paint, this dialogue between precision and decay transforms the metal into both canvas and subject.
The paintings are holding light, memory, and time within its shifting interplay of opposites.
Lethe
- acrylic on rust - 80x80x3cm
Lethe is the daimon, a goddess of forgetfulness, in Greek mythology.
She is a daughter of Eris (Discordia) and is often associated with the river
of the same name in the underworld, the River Lethe.
Lethe contrasts with Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.
These two figures symbolize the opposites of forgetting and remembering.
Detail Lethe
Triptych Asymptote
- acrylic on rust and charred wood - 3x 80x100x3cm
Where sets of related elements approach but never intersect.
Derived from the Greek word “asumptōtos” which means "not falling together".
– asymptote represents a concept that “related elements come close together but never actually becoming one,
and it heads separately towards infinity”.
Not only in the mathematical world, we also see this phenomenon in our society.
- This Triptych has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo in 2023
Triptych Asymptote
at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Detail Triptych Asymptote
Mid Ocean - Logbook
- acrylic on rust - 110x80x3cm
Logbooks - ship's diaries full of facts and stories from centuries.
The logbook is always an effort to maintain order in the element of
unrest in the seemingly limitless space between ocean and sky, to fixate something.
Detail Mid Ocean - Logbook
Sailor - North
- acrylic on rust
Sailor - South
- acrylic on rust
Sailor - Arctic
- acrylic on rust
Last Bollards
- acrylic on rust - 100x100x3cm
Sea bollards - guardians of the shore.
Their weathered surfaces, marked by countless tides, tell stories of departures and returns,
of adventures embarked upon and journeys safely concluded.
Sea bollards are more than mere structures; their steadfastness are symbols of stability
and constancy amidst the ceaseless ebb and flow.
Detail Last Bollards
Pneuma Study 01
- acrylic on aluminum
Pneuma (πνεῦμα, Lat. spiritus) is connected etymologically with πνέω,
breathe, and has a basic meaning of 'air in motion', or 'breath' as
something necessary to life. In Greek tragedy it is used as the 'breath
of life' and 'Spirit'.
Pneuma is the animating force of the cosmos: a rational, life-giving breath
that forms the soul, binds matter, and expresses divine reason throughout nature.
Detail Pneuma Study 01
Low Tide Reflections
- acrylic on rust - 80x80x3cm
Walking on water might sound like something out of a fantasy,
but during low tide, it’s almost a reality.
When the sea retreats, it reveals a hidden world beneath the waves.
Detail Low Tide Reflections
Awakening
- acrylic on rust - 100x100x3cm
A catalyst for positive, bright transformation
- like the silver lining on the horizon and the reflected light on the ocean.
It is a reminder that change is not only constant,
but also a source of unparalleled beauty.
Detail Awakening
Thoughts Rift
- acrylic on rust - 80x100x3cm
The Thoughts Rift is not a place but a fracture,
where ideas collide and blend into one another,
forming something alien and unsolicited.
With each glance, the edges of reality blur,
leaving the uncertainty if the rift is a glimpse
into untapped potential and promising answers to
unanswered questions, or the beginning of madness?
Detail Thoughts Rift
Detail Thoughts Rift
Towards Low Tide
- acrylic on rust - 100x100x3cm
Detail Towards Low Tide
Detail Rough Sea Blue
5:13
- acrylic on rust - 60x60x3cm
Detail Ostfriesland islands
Seemannsgarn 01
Study
- acrylic on rust
Detail Seemannsgarn 01
Study
Detail Oxymoron
- car paint on rust - 100x100x3cm
Detail Triptych Asymptote
Detail Table Talk
- acrylic on rust - 110x80x3cm
Detail Oxymoron II
- acrylic on rust - 80x80x3cm
Detail Mid Night
- acrylic on rust - 100x60x3cm
Weeping-Willow
- rust on rust - 100x100x3cm
Homage to Claude Monet
Perspective Night
- acrylic on rust - 80x80x3cm
Red Sea
- acrylic on stainless steel - 40x38x1cm
Detail Red Sea
Polder study
- acrylic on rust
Detail Polder study
Detail Verschiebung und Echo
Zum Zerreißen gespannt
- acrylic on rust - 130x100x3cm
Detail Mid Night
Seemansgarn Study 02
- acrylic on aluminium
Northern Lights Study
- acrylic on aluminium
Gewitterstimmung
- acrylic on rust - 100x60x3cm
Falling into fall
- acrylic on stainless steel - 60x63x3cm
Mid Night
- acrylic on rust - 60x100x3cm
Port City
- acrylic on rust - 105x100x3cm
Zeitfenster/Time Window
- Car paint neon yellow on rust - 100x100x3cm
Rough Sea Blue
- acrylic on rust - 100x100x3cm
The root for the old Germanic word rust is the Indo-European
word red (red color, red earth); the oxidized layer of iron is therefore
named after its reddish color. Whether in anthropology, the scientific study
of humanity, or in astrophysics, the study of the physical nature of the cosmos:
RED is closely associated with excitement, expansion and the primordial past;
the color BLUE with calm, closeness and return.
Mitternacht
Detials Rough Sea Blue and Rough Sea Red
- acrylic on rust - 100x100x3cm
Detail Enigma
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Detail Enigma
- polished metal and acrylic
exhibit composition
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