Boundaries & Lines 03 Painting

I mould my philosophy into visual form in such a way that I consciously give up using various painting tools in order to focus solely on the gist. Therefore the figures in my pictures are plain-like, unshaded, I rarely apply 3D effects in the background and even if I do so, they are only indicative. The emphasis is on the figures’ movements, on simplified colour-usage, on the choice and application of different materials. The strong outlines of shapes act as cohesive frames of our selves. Collages are made of materials (rubbish) useless to others. They are mainly paper-based. The pictures are very personal, most of them were born actually due to a special kind of cooperation. The surfaces of my figures are filled with children’s drawings. Namely for my first such picture I used up my eldest daughter’s old divinity notebook with my 3rd grader girl’s psalm. She wrote the following: „Be my sister blest for she is an autist. For she has to behave well at school and her teachers’ have to pay attention to her. Give her happiness in her full ages, as well!” It is merely thought-provoking where this kind of sensitivity, love, empathy disappears from most of us. After this I started collecting my autist daughter’s scribble drawings and built up in my pictures. From then on our cooperation is continuous. My aim is that the thoughts, which appear visually in my pictures, take the spectator to a time travel, back to childhood. I do believe, that childlike purity is there in everyone, we only have to be able to call it forth in order to make my pictures perceptible and sensible. Being a child while we know that we are already adults, is a good thing. If we dig deeper into the reality of child-existence, we have to realize, there is practically everything in it; intrigue, hatred, exclusion, hostility and abjection, which represents the seamy side of belief in human goodness. Contrasts play an important role in my pictures. A child is also a human; there is everything in them as in an adult with the difference that they are perfect. In everyday life as an art teacher of children from age 11 to 19, I see and also experience how children do things with such devotion. They are enthusiastic, ready to act, they can hardly wait to utter their thoughts, feelings. They do not do this in speech but often in pictures, drawings, paintings, through dancing, singing, playing.