disturbing fascination: In my Berlin apartment at the time, there was always a fine film of brown coal ash. It was omnipresent, on furniture, on skin, in thoughts. The coldness and loneliness of that period shaped this work. Initially, I experimented with bringing this diffuse feeling to the canvas, and over time it developed into this creature. An organic-looking plaster body, hollow, with openings and fraying, fleshy and raw. The surface is irregular, shrouded in a deep black. The object embodies that which is too heavy to remain in the picture and therefore forces its way into the room.
