Diptych (29,5 x 21 cm und), individually framed work with a beech frame and conservation glass.

The work Silicium I and II is one of the artistic outcomes that developed during the project URSPRUN/ORIGINS (2015-2017) where I went into a dialogue with with Dieter Braun, Professor for Systems Biophysics about the origins of life on earth.

During one of my numerous visits in his laboratory, I found a beautiful reflecting dish in the waste bin, already broken. I learned that this dish was made out of silicon and was an important part of a key experiment on temperature gradients - a recreation of the temperature non-equilibrium in hot volcano stones. It is called the „thermal trap“. I took the plate back to my studio, glued it onto a piece of paper and started to let my mind wonder about the cracks and irregular fractures. Aimlessly I followed the cracks with my pen, put all kinds of thoughts about the origins of life on the paper anddrew other connections.

When I decided to stop, I took a photograph to document what I had done.
At home on my computer I looked at the photo and discovered my own distorted, fractured face in the reflection. I had to laugh because it looked grotesque but then I realised that this was the perfect self portrait of me in the middle of this project - how I struggled to understand and boil down this vast topic in some definite art work. It dawned on me that I wont be able to sum up the results of the dialoge with Dieter Braun about the "origin of life“ in one major piece. I accepted the fact that whatever I create will deal only with a tiny part of this subject. It was like finding single pieces of a giant puzzles without ever getting the bigger picture together. And in a way, this brought me back to my own artistic approach which often is non linear and chaotic.

Diptych (29,5 x 21 cm und), individually framed work with a beech frame and conservation glass.

The work Silicium I and II is one of the artistic outcomes that developed during the project URSPRUN/ORIGINS (2015-2017) where I went into a dialogue with with Dieter Braun, Professor for Systems Biophysics about the origins of life on earth.

During one of my numerous visits in his laboratory, I found a beautiful reflecting dish in the waste bin, already broken. I learned that this dish was made out of silicon and was an important part of a key experiment on temperature gradients - a recreation of the temperature non-equilibrium in hot volcano stones. It is called the „thermal trap“. I took the plate back to my studio, glued it onto a piece of paper and started to let my mind wonder about the cracks and irregular fractures. Aimlessly I followed the cracks with my pen, put all kinds of thoughts about the origins of life on the paper anddrew other connections.

When I decided to stop, I took a photograph to document what I had done.
At home on my computer I looked at the photo and discovered my own distorted, fractured face in the reflection. I had to laugh because it looked grotesque but then I realised that this was the perfect self portrait of me in the middle of this project - how I struggled to understand and boil down this vast topic in some definite art work. It dawned on me that I wont be able to sum up the results of the dialoge with Dieter Braun about the "origin of life“ in one major piece. I accepted the fact that whatever I create will deal only with a tiny part of this subject. It was like finding single pieces of a giant puzzles without ever getting the bigger picture together. And in a way, this brought me back to my own artistic approach which often is non linear and chaotic.