The man and his over-the-shoulder avatar (the 2nd me) – former software developer and technical author, retired vocational school teacher and now hobby artist who makes art for himself, or at least art for the sake of art.

Unhappily widowed, mourning spouse and all the missed opportunities of decades together, but at the same time at peace with life in loneliness. Playing with language and pictures  fills  resulting emptiness with joy of life.

Since images and thus also words, a smartphone and various computers are omnipresent, it is not difficult to sit down in a studio with a “workbench” and start. The only difficult thing is to get back to the original idea/the original picture and to capture it on a drawing paper or a picture book page. 

Creative shaping in the night, struggling with the masses of data in the head that have accumulated over the decades, constantly searching for connections and relationships  between word and picture, phonemic pictures and picture words .