some pictures for 
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry



A city seen from the air. Billions of events, millions of stories. Energy moving in cycles for individual entities and for the whole.

Everyone feels this vision for a moment when they look out an airplane window. It must be an elemental experience of the imagination at work. It soon fades, because there is little to do with it. But the artist holds on to it, and broods over it like a hen over her eggs.

The artist reads about the life of cells and tries to grasp the reality of directed chemical reactions in the dark becoming life. Ultimately (ultimately?) becoming self-consciousness.

Is the life of that city a mirror of these processes? More than a metaphor, but rather an actuality that can only be grasped by dreaming. Then turning that dream into a prediction to be tested, and finally seeing not through a glass darkly, but through an instrument face to face.



Cell studies

OIL, WATERCOLOUR, ETC. ON PAPER      76.2 x 55.9 CM

    Vergil mit Schneebesen               Vergil with Whisk

    Der Geißel                   The Scourge

   Dichter am Zahltag                Poet on Payday

    OK Fegefeuer               OK Purgatory

     Der Kneter              The Kneader                         

Seven Deadly Finns

The Sinnerman's Story           Die Geschichte des Sünders

Wet Poet              Nasser Dichter

The Last of the Wine             Der letzte Wein

The Unforgiven           Der unvergeben

The forgiven               Das vergeben

Hairwasher in Hell          Haarwascher in der Hölle

Hairwasher in Purgatory       Haarwascher im Fegefeuer

Hairwasher in Paradise         Haarwascher im Paradies

Till Dawn               Bis zum Morgengrauen

Nostalgia Net           Nostalgie-Netz

Here comes the circus                   Hier kommt der Zirkus

   Levitating in the Alten Pinakothek       Schweben in der Alten Pinakothek

Harbourview Montessori School Project September 2019


THE PAINT ROLLER AS DIRECT TRANSFER TOOL

THE PAINT ROLLER AS OFFSET TRANSFER TOOL

 

Indexical-mark matrices from all around

used as applied offset transfers 

to activate large areas of surface quickly and interestingly.

 The roller as a drawing / painting tool with its own learning curve.





INITIALS AS MONOGRAM OR LOGO FORMS

Everyone needs a logo. Your initials supply the raw material.

 Albrecht Durer monograms

Wiener Werkstätte monograms




MONOTYPE 

Monotype offers a short cut to achieving a good, naturalistic form for a painting while bypassing the difficult skills of drawing.  

 A photo is taped under a sheet of plexiglas.

 The photo serves as a drawing guide. 

 It works best when the painting is loose and uses a lot of paint.

 This is a short cut but not a cheat; as the model underneath gets covered up, you have to go to standard painting practice. At this point you're dealing with the painting itself, not the model.

 The painting is transferred to a support under pressure.

The fun of monotype is that your control over the result extends only to the application and to the pressure of the transfer. The fluid dynamics of the materials takes over during the transfer. You never know what image you'll actually get. It's always a surprise.

The term 'monotype' refers to the single image one can pull from the matrix, because most of the paint is transferred. But a second, lighter image can be made if you use light, absorbent paper.

Monotype has a look of its own. It tends toward a lively, unfussy, expressionist look. But the firmness of a photo-based drawing makes itself felt.

 The process is marked by its distinctive textures-- like these hydroid patches.

  Evanescent lines, like ghosts of brushstrokes, which are impossible to achieve directly, but are a natural part of the process.

 It's a collaboration with nature, who paints very well, and in turn makes you a better painter.

That's why one monotype leads to another. The picture needn't end with the initial result. It can serve as the base for a more detailed rendering. The picture can be reworked endlessly.