Towards the end of my time at art col­lege in Kassel/Germany I was draw­ing a lot in order to improve my uni­ver­sity entrance port­fo­lio. So I began exper­i­ment­ing with drawn nar­rat­ives and sequences. Although at the time I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing, look­ing back now—after 2 years at university—I find these pieces rather intriguing. The draw­ing itself of course is improv­able but the nar­rat­ive nature still makes me smile. The stor­ies are as simple or as com­plic­ated as the nar­rat­ive that the viewer likes to read into the gut­ter. An old man is los­ing his hat and a mouse runs through the ink it has been drawn in. Other images have a clear theme going on: pres­sure in all forms whether psy­cho­lo­gical or phys­ical. And last but not least a motion study of a clas­sic ‘run­ning bomb’ per­form­ance. Still quite inspir­a­tional to think further.

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It seems like at art col­lege in Kassel/Germany I developed almost a draw­ing fet­ish for the human hand. Not sur­pris­ing since this is the only object that is imme­di­ately around when you fancy some spon­tan­eous life draw­ing. Here are some examples of how my left hand helped me to train my right side of the brain. I’d like to draw spe­cial atten­tion to the rather lat­er­ally related ‘bar(e)foot)’. What a pun.

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Trans­form­a­tions, mer­ging things into each other is a nice play of thoughts for example dur­ing lengthy bus journeys.