the philosophy

In order to create my art, my photographs, I proceed to another level of experience. To get there it needs a well rested day, absolute calm, concentration and total relaxion at the same time. I proceed to a state where experience itsself – life – is standing before me concrete like a rock. It’s this moment when it hits you. Directly.

Each time it happens it takes something from me but at the same time it gives back much more than I can grasp.

I’ve always loved a temperature that’s too cold actually. Not much too cold, I’m not talking of minus degrees, I’m talking of this kind of temperature where you feel a bit chilly as for example on one of the early autumn days when you still dressed in light clothes of the warm noon – get crept over by the feeling which I love that much,- suddenly and mostly from the back.

Unexpectedly it comes, first silently, then shaking and hitting you for short! Normally forgotten the next moment and relished much too rarely: like silvery beats it trickles down your back,- cool and rapidly. What I love about it is the unexpected and especially the uncontrolable. I’m waiting for it. The moment it occurs each thought is interrupted, totally taken unawares. You don’t feel anything else for a second - and everything at the same time. A moment of pure being, a moment of concrete reality.

Life comes suddenly,- like a flash.

Moments of these, moments of life are what I want to capture in my photographs and set them free again with who views them.

Do me a favour when looking at my pictures: Don’t think!