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The essence of this series lies in new beginnings and the luminosity of the very smallest. Just as the first ray of sunshine awakens hope for a warm summer’s day, the smallest found objects move across the stage as agile protagonists.

Heart, my heart, why so cheerful,
so full of restlessness and distracted,
as if the beautiful springtime were already coming blissfully over the mountains
?”

First verse of the poem ‘Neue Liebe’ (1837) by Joseph von Eichendorff.

This poem is the namesake for this series of special favorite moments

These figures made of dried flowers made me think of great egrets: with their elegant plumage, they stand out from the dreary landscape and wade through the reeds with a measured stride. Or are they perhaps dancing the tango? Perhaps the pond hens know it, frolicking in the gnarled bank shrubs at the bottom of the scene.

All the scenes are reassembled from remnants that I picked up somewhere: two flowers lying in a parking lot, a lost star at the bus stop, a pearl hanging loosely on a thread and caught in a crack in the cobblestones – everything can be found again in these contemporary collages – a roundelay of little ghosts of time.