"Ornithology"

workseries from 2005,
consisting of 15 paintings and four assemblage boxes



  Bird wings, merging into clusters, are dominating the majority of the paintings.  The bird motives serve as a metaphor for the themes of migration and integration.  The un-ordered structures of the abstracted background become a projection plane for the emotional context of the image.

From the presstext about the works "OIII" und "OIV":
(translated from german)

  A nest with golden eggs - representational for the idealized, domestic vision of "home" - hangs statically in the air, while a merging cluster of different bird species hovers next to it.
  The migratory character of the different, not clearly distinguishable birds is a metaphor for living in a world whose territorial and cultural borders are increasingly less defined.

  Home has become an unbound, drifting concept - something universally striven for, which becomes attainable only if the definition of this de-rooted ideal is altered accordingly.
  In order to constitute a continued anchor point for the individual and provide a place of familiarity and refuge, the term transforms and is removed from it's once static character.

  The works of the "Ornithology" series seek to to create the emotional visualization of a fleeting moment: change as a new overshadowing constant in a world that is being defined by the metamorphic state it creates as it emphasizes the context of progression.