The conceptual project SEA-WHAT IS THERE was realized between June 2020 and May 2021. It shows seascapes constructed from plastic washed up on the beaches of Northern Germany during the
lockdowns of the corona-pandemic. Beaches weren't cleaned regularly as tourism was suspended. The five images shown are made of the cover of a helium balloon found wrapped in seagrass. In their actual appearance the images raise questions between the worship of nature and the destruction of nature at the same time.
With the camera, the artist creates an arc of tension between the ugly face of plastic polluting the sea, the images of virtual sea beauty created from it through artistic alienation and the reflections to nature that these for the viewer almost inevitably trigger.
The works open up to the viewer a depth of interpretation of the thematic standpoints, the threat situation and the social confrontation with them. You can feel fine irony instead of cynicism, sarcasm or even aggression, but also deep respect for nature - perhaps as a conciliatory perspective, but in any case as a sustainable legitimation for action.
