The Horizons - new series, new works, new technique

This summer I immersed myself in a new technique, because I want to begin a new series: The Horizons.

Gel printing remains my preferred technique for depicting water surfaces, I've already tested and used it extensively for the "Atlas of Forms" series. But over the past months I also began working with photo transfer. It was not a quick path: the process takes a great deal of time before I arrive at a result I'm truly satisfied with. But I managed it this summer, and I'm convinced this technique will become a fixed part of my new series.

The first work in this series is titled "Taktvoll." It measures 100 by 140 centimeters and, like many of my pieces, is in two parts, though this time the gap between them carries real meaning: the space itself represents the horizon.

Thematically, I continue to explore wanderlust, vastness and infinity, the way reality mirrors itself, the longing for adventure, and melancholy. What's new is that for the first time I'm incorporating real photographs of real people, all taken by me. This also opens up a new way of seeing: the back of a person becomes the central motif, because only from behind can you tell that someone is looking toward the horizon.