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Ancient date palm is alive!
Two scientists have achieved something incredible: They have awakened 2000-year-old date seeds from their slumber! The date pits were already 2000 years old! Despite this biblical age, date plants could actually be grown from them! Initially, they were able to grow a male date palm, which they named Methuselah. A few years later, they also…
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Why genderize?
Why genderize? Gendering? Really now? My Dear Colleagues* Does that have to be the case? Do we also have to use gender in art? For whom and for what is that supposed to be good? Gendering is annoying and complicated. On the other hand, we need renewal in many respects. Perhaps we can accept these…
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I also brake for art!
…because art is on the street. In any case, I find the material for my works wherever I walk and stand. As soon as I slow down, I find new and interesting things everywhere. It’s simply good to take time now and again to notice the little things around us. Taking our eyes off the…
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IS THIS ART? or CAN THIS GO?
I have posted a little movie on YouTube about this all-important question In case of doubt for art? Do we need evidence for art? Maybe or maybe not How good that there are so few limits to art. Sometimes, however, this makes it all the more difficult to find your bearings. My suggestion: always keep…
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Monumental and insignificant
Hundreds of miniatures made from banal waste scraps form a colorful flock of birds on woven strips of paper. A microcosm full of surprising personalities
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Radio Active
Some time ago I was invited to be interviewed by the radio station “Radio Aktiv”. Thank you very much! It was great fun! The interview, which was edited by Mr. Joachim Stracke, can now be heard here. It’s about my work for the 300th anniversary of the city and the 300 personalities that I designed…
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Jewelry with found objects
Jewelry creations in silver In collaboration with Anne Zimmer, small, fine, unique pieces of jewelry have been created. This time it was to be a ring. A little bird has emerged from a seed pod of an ornamental grass. Here still without resin sealing. This little bird has a little resemblance to a budgerigar. When…
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300 years of the town of Pyrmont | 300 personalities
The title of this art project says it all: 300 years of the town of Pyrmont | 300 personalities. A long line of important and illustrious historical spa guests and residents of Bad Pyrmont provide me with ample inspiration for new and idiosyncratic personalities. The extraordinary natural phenomena typical of Bad Pyrmont, such as the…
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Lullaby for pupas
The metamorphosis… is a magnificent transformation and an impressive miracle. For even the seemingly motionless dolls are in the midst of a silent tour de force, an invisible construction site of life. Incredible changes take place on the way from egg to adult insect. Several weeks pass before the mealworm turns into a nymph or…
