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Auguries of erosion

In an ever-changing world, the present is quicksand leading to a vanishing future. Looking for skills that will be eternal in a material that transcends. The marks I make in time are eternal, but the act is ephemeral. My traces are visible, yet my presence is not. Embracing the tangible lets me endure the transience, but the light that falls on me doesn’t reach the negative, disappearing. Because of my pace, becoming no more than air. 

This photographic work is now at eighty, two-hour exposures of me working on the stone sculpture you see behind you. Interacting with the physical in a world filled with intangible matter. 

Escaping to my refuge, walking through the forest, I lean down to the stems of ancient oak trees. The closer I look, the more I zoom in, a whole world of micro-organisms reveals itself to me.


Lichens are able to grow in extreme conditions – in the cold and the heat, without water or drowning in humidity. And yet, they cannot survive what us humans put them through. They are colored in by the toxicity of the air we breathe every day.


Even the biggest forest of Cologne couldn’t provide me with the clean air I am searching for. Surrounded by faded yellow – I find a language I can read.