Picture series no 10, Symplegaden_3 (Symlegades_3), 2015
The entire series consits of 19 pictures.
Picture series no 9, Anthropozän_overview (Anthropocene_overview), 2015
The entire series consits of 49 pictures.
Picture series no 6, Eingezäunter Berg (Fenced Mountain), 2013
The entire series consits of 62 pictures.
Picture series no 4, Berliner Sandberge (Berlin Sand Mountains), 2012
The entire series consits of 83 pictures.
In 2013 the series of pictures was published as a book.
Selected pictures from the series were realised as lightboxes.
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Berlin Sand Mountains (Berliner Sandberge)
Berlin took me in. Berlin is not a house. It's a plate with no protective edges. A huge flat urban area built on sand. A place of constant change. Decorative patterns of creative, political, social and economic ingredients are constantly growing and fading. Incalculable masses of large and small busy crawlers are busy 24 hours a day, incessantly searching, rebuilding and discarding. Nothing prevents the emergence of mountains of visions. Hopes are raised, projects are started, energies are piled up. New glitter stuff stands next to old scars and in between magical emptiness. Building sites carry symbolic meaning. Mountains of sand, rubble and other materials form timelessly beautiful and simple allegories for a short time. In Berlin, mountains are not symbols for eternity, but signs and traces of change in the perpetual search. As a Swiss, recently living in Berlin, I feel the need to pay my respects to Berlin. Although the city offers motivically significant historical landmarks, I prefer the mountain motif. Berlin feeds my creativity, I penetrate the pictorial, the external, find solutions in Berlin's ever growing and passing mountain world.
2012 FR