February 2025

“PD"—in this work, the abbreviation stands both for ‘per diem’ (German: ‘Reisekosten’) for a short trip into the psyche and alternatively for ‘psycho drapes’. “PD/Psycho Drapes” is the manifestation of an image idea that developed from the memory of the song ‘Psycho killer’ in the concert film ‘Stop Making Sense’ in the mid-1980s, when I listened to the song again after quite some time. Contrary to the track’s title, the lyrics delve into anxieties that plague the everyman, a psychological thriller set within the confines of one’s mind. It navigates...


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“BoCHUM” is ultimately a tribute to my adopted home town. Beginning with the lyrics of Herbert Grönemeyer's 1984 cult song “Bochum”, a concise list of events and places that are more than worth visiting follows and ends with an appreciation of the city and its people before the text repeats itself in the opposite direction. The red outline of the city and the stylized miner 'reinforce' the theme and the final syllable 'chum' (British English) emphasized in the title, which in German colloquially means something like 'Kumpel', 'Spezi' or 'Kamerad' (equivalent to the American...


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This is not an advertisement for IT devices. Rather, it is a representation of my “studio”—with its fixed and mobile components: Desktop PC, DIN-A3 color laser printer for final prints, DIN-A4 inkjet printer for drafts, laptop and DIN-A4 thermal printer for 'on the go'. Where in my early days it was all about ink and pencil, ruler and paper, digitalization has arrived and is now my “playground.”


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With a little geographical knowledge, you can already tell which country it is from the shape of the island. If you transform the clue, the English term “a͡ɪlənd”, into written language, the German-speaking observer will immediately recognize the country name “Island” ('Iceland' in English).


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The scientific forecast that the earth will only come to an end in connection with the collapse of our sun in about five billion years seems more than optimistic to me. Equally optimistic are simulations that see the end of life on Earth as possible in around 250 million years in connection with gigantic tectonic shifts. All these calculations underestimate the true (self-)destruction potential of humans, which will certainly usher in the end of the world much sooner.To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know...


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The social network "X" stands, since it is controlled by Elon Musk, for a (perhaps not quite so) new, twisted understanding of truth, freedom of opinion and speech, and 'facts'. Ultimately, it serves the power and influence interests of self-important (super)rich people in order to create a right-wing populist pseudo-life-world, which is dominated by conspiracy theories and pervaded by the thinking of evangelical fanatics... oh, I get sick at the thought...[A] The combination of the background of the picture (the sky) and another visual object may evoke an (English) term that...


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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of “Behind the Curtain.” A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense.The disappearing moon, which merges with the sun, generates the image of a time of high humidity and persistent heavy rainfall in the composition of the two terms 'moon' and 'sun', excluding one of its two 'o's—the 'Monsun' in German (monsoon)…a play on words in the face of the dawn picture.The...


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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of "Behind the Curtain." A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense. Continuing the 'view from the kitchen window' theme—the time between 4 and 6 a.m. (either I wasn't in bed by then or I was already up again) is the best time of day for me, with the exception of the winter months. In a gadda da vida” is said to have originally been ‘In the garden of Eden’....


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Undoubtedly a still life: a wooden bench in the sunlight in the middle of a meadow—were it not for the short text and the bank logos burned into the backrest. In German, both the term 'Bank' and the adjective 'gemein' are used ambiguously. 'Bank' stands for a bench and also for a financial institution. In connection with the logos engraved in the wood, the object 'bench' is transformed into the institution 'bank'. In this work, 'common' is used on the one hand in the sense of ordinary, on the other hand in the sense of indelicate or indecent (business). Thus we see here an ordinary...


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As the title of the work indicates, this work is designed as a background image for use on computers. The photograph is taken on the coast of Callantsolog, North Holland, and the door to and from the sea is actually a picture of the patio door to my vacation home.[A] The combination of the background of the picture (the sky) and another visual object may evoke an (English) term that is ambiguous in German and thus “calls up a second theme”.  [B] In addition, this combination may result in a new subject or an invented word through an equally pronounced but differently spelled...


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