As ideas emerge
People actually ask me quite often where my ideas come from. Which creative techniques I use. Whether I work with
Studio Notes
When Does Art Stop Being Art?
Perhaps the valued reader has noticed that public debates repeatedly flare up around the question of what art is —
About my handwriting more than mere writing
Perhaps the valued reader has already encountered my handwriting in various entries within these Cogitationes. Whether in guestbook entries at
Max Herrmann-Neiße
There are poets one admires.And there are poets who slowly take root somewhere inside one’s own thinking. Max Herrmann-Neiße belongs,
Ten Sentences for People Who Want to Sound Intelligent at Openings
A small survival guide for those who find themselves—by accident or by intention—somewhere between art and prosecco. (This text is
And Size Does Matter After All
At this point, the esteemed reader may permit a small, almost heretical question: does art always have to be large?
I Do Not Photograph Numbers
There are certain themes that will continue to accompany the valued reader here with almost stubborn regularity, much like Cato
Why My Images Must Lose Their Colour
One of the questions I am asked again and again is this: why black and white? The simple answer would
The Images That Never Came Into Being
What happens when a photographic work dissolves into nothing. When people speak about art, they almost always speak about finished
The Moment Alone Is Not Enough
On photography, art, and the loss of seeing We live in a time in which images are everywhere, and yet