sketchbook ... what's on my mind:
visitors in my cocoon 'in tenebris' (luminale 2012, until april 20, 18-23 h; see timetable)[more]
being handy to create art: dieter and jens after setting up the gate of light for 'in tenebris' (lat. in the darkness). more about ' luminale' biannual see 'timetable'[more]
knitting a noise tapestry: offenbach hopes for a permanent night landing stop on frankfurt airport's newest runway. a little sleep helps to cope with the days! [more]
wie schwer, die wahrheit aus dem schnee zu locken, wie schwer, dem eis der erde zu entstammen, und seine pracht wie eine sense mitzuschleppen, die davon träumt, dass köpfe rollen sollen, bis die verhaltensmuster sinnvoll werden. sei sinnlos, dann ist groß deine natur! wie schön, den himmel an der schnur zu führen! - inger christensen, das gemalte zimmer (suhrkamp 1996)[more]
found this thought in walter benjamin's 'arcades project': the silhouette is the image of a person who passes us by. [more]
remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. you are already naked. - steve jobs, stanford commencement address 2005[more]
in fact it meant, i didn't remember anything that had happened - but i remembered the spaces in which it had done so. i remembered all places where i had been, all rooms in which i had stayed. i just didn't remember what had taken place in them. - karl ove knausgard, sterben (luchterhand 2011, unauthorized translation)[more]
summer academy at homburg castle: kirsten and i draw in nature. an i-phone with us all the time. what's the meaning of an image?[more]
for vogelfrei biannual, my silhouettes of hunters and gatherers move to the 19th century dining room of kranichstein hunting castle. an overlayering (melting?) of time zones: the ambiance of the room, the archaic silhouettes and the visitors in the space. [more]
kunstansichten open studios 2011: the visitors come, bring an artifact from their life and press a stop watch. i draw what is dear to them in 60 sec. after a 2-day exhibit of artifacts and sketches, the visitors regain their property and receive the drawing as a gift.[more]
From today I can change contents of this website myself. Please come back to see the changes that will happen more often! *:-)[more]
heads of prince jussuf. done at the exhibition of else lasker-schueler’s drawings, jewish museum frankfurt. this one is rare, precious and absolutely worth seeing![more]
werkstätten hainbachtal and bettina joest from the city adiministration think that twinning projects between cities should as well be lived between mentally or emotionallly handicapped people. The guests come from velletri/italy, esch-sur-alzette/luxemburg, mödling/austria und köszeg/hungary to offenbach. with the whole group, uschi zepter and I created suitcases, containing the things of their hearts.[more]
mesut özil plays soccer with the elegance of a dancer. a boy from the neighborhood gave me this sticker as a present. he was proud that i find özil great (and because this guy made it in Germany). [more]
no, there’s nothing behind it. i want to remain on the first glance. i want to gain or regain the first glance on the city in which I live. - franz hessel, a flaneur in berlin (1929)[more]
at present photographer yutaka kushima is here in germany. he took photos of ernst may’s bauhaus housing in frankfurt. now he is berlin to shoot bruno taut’s settlement in britz. yutaka’s topics are city and sea scapes, devoid of any human beings. but humans are always present in the traces they have left. monday night we show some of yutaka’s b/w work here in offenbach in the artist’s studio house b71.[more]
ice skater mao asada is a princess. her skating is wonderful. at the moment her biggest problem is her mind. she doesn’t get lost any more when she’s skating. here she is a couple of weeks ago after a competition in moscow. in her disappointment she looks like a japanese wood-print of ukiyo-e.[more]