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Reign of chaos

What is art? A decoration of life or something more? A quest? A result? A way to understand the world, God and oneself through beauty? Can art be understood at all or only felt? Is it represented philosophy? And what is beauty in this context?

How are the ideas for art pieces born? Are they invented by artists? Or are the ideas themselves in search of a real artist to be realized? Is an artist in that sense a creator or an instrument? What are imagination, inspiration and creativity really?

I believe there is an eternal, boundless, black ocean around the universe, the chaos from which everything was and is created. Artists are always subconsciously connected to it. This is where ideas and dreams come from. That's where inspiration and creativity come from. And art itself is an attempt to guide the chaos...


The project was realized in front of the Pont d`Alexandre, Paris.

I was born in Berlin in 1968 and studied psychology in Konstanz 21 years later. I have been working as a freelance psychotherapist for around 23 years. In my work, I often sit opposite my patients and wish that they could see themselves through my eyes, at least once. Because every person, every animal, simply every being has its own inherent beauty, and I want to reveal this beauty, this radiance that lies dormant in everyone. Photography allows me to do just that.

Initially, my goal with relationship photos was to capture expressions of intimacy, trust, connection, care, and love, and then press the shutter at just the right moment.

As my photography developed, the artistic aspect became increasingly important in my work, which aims to depict inner psychological processes that also reflect the processes of a larger whole: metamorphoses, the connection between alchemy and psychology.