DIALOGUE THROUGH GLASS

Beholding the beholder, beholding myself, and holding dialogues through time – a never ending journey. Outlines of landscapes, and a silhouette of a face are individual, unique. Beholding a face from the side I can see the other in a way they would never. Just as my own silhouette remains hidden from myself.

DIALOGUE THROUGH GLASS 1
2024, Cyanotype
50 x 67 cm / 18 x 25 inches

LANGSAMKEIT

Landscapes, cityscapes, faces of today and yesterday, are all in my mind´s eye. Variations of reality and the idea of it from a different angle – to weave past and present into a valid moment impossible to be recreated again. It mirrors a concealed time, yet also something else after all these years – glimpses of something that remains open ended.

DUST IN THE WIND

BERLIN RIDE

It starts at the first stop and ends at the last stop which is the same – a never ending journey.  I am subject to transience and fleeting, both in the mind’s eye and in real.

JOURNEY

To sit at the train window, pressing the shutter. The simultaneity of statics and speed is a moment of conciousness. To be on the road, to be anonymous, to simply exist in the moment.

WINTERJOURNEY

PASSING BY

To look at the viewer – to look at myself, Silhouettes and shapes are unique. What I see passes by and becomes invisible.

DWELLINGS

THE WINDOW

NEVER ENDING

Photographing myself by remote shutter release. Leafing through magazines and looking at faces gazing at each other or something. Endless immersing into a deep room, analog of social media.

READING KIERKEGAARD

READING KIERKEGAARD

2002

10 x 8 plate camera / 5 min exposure time / image size 10 x 8 inches –

Hand printed in 2002, silver gelatine paper as triptych of 30×24 inches, (unique)

edition of 8, size 25,5 x 20 cm / 65 x 50 cm

Berlin 2002, setting up the large-format plate camera.

Reading texts of Søren Kierkegaard. Releasing the camera’s shutter for an exposure of five minutes – Reading the text for precisely the duration of the exposure. Kierkegaard’s philosophical understanding of time as something that must be lived existentially – in the act of reading during the exposure past, present, and future merge.

The plate camera, which captures the reader and Kierkegaard’s texts so precisely, virtually draws the past into the picture whereas the reader embodies a moment of the present while reading.

The resulting image is the future and reveals itself only later.

The crispness of the camera lens is depicting the text crystal clear and the viewer is drawn in.

ENLIGHTENMENT

The city is an addictive machine from which there is no escape.

Countless trips to enlightend spaces, to the realm of the beautyful and the artificial. Inspired by Rem Kohlhaas I am the visual kleptomaniac, within self contained scapes of beauty in transition. Trips to nonplaces in Berlin and London, urban landscapes. Public spaces, full of speed yet static, morbid layers of the void, of patterns and destructions, of ornaments, anonymous.

LONDON ORNAMENTS

BERLIN ORNAMENTS

GOTHAM CITY

An atmospheric, introspective feel pervades my memory of this time, getting to know the streets of New York, hidden as a multiple self in Anonymity.

John Doe