"SURFER`S BIKE" Painting

1953, I was as a boy in beautiful Freiburg i. Br. born. My youth I spent up to my 18th year at 10 different locations in Europe . My training as a printer I've finished in the graphic arts industry . Until 2011, I worked for various internationally oriented sales company in the graphics industry in a leading position . 2008 Inclusion of my artistic activities to mitigate as self-therapy to the increasingly strong through the Transidentity psychological pressure and dismantle. Since 2011 I have worked as a business consultant and freelance artist . Since 2016 I live , with all the resulting challenges felt by my gender as a woman . I am different from other boys, was already aware at the age of 6 years. Since that time, the Transidentity connected draws with many ups and downs like a thread through my life. From social and family constraints, a life in the perceived gender could not be realized. The result was alcoholic excesses and the lamentable failure of several relationships. 2012, I had suffered a total mental breakdown with a resultant of several months of hospitalization. Only in 2016, the internal psychological pressure was finally greater than the fear of the consequences, and I started my second "real" life as a woman. The pop art has me captivated since my youth. Beginning of my works were reproductions of Roy Lichtenstein images. After a relatively short time I found my own style and evolved over the years consistently. The incurred in the past two years paintings and sculptures, deal exclusively with the issue of "transgender" and are a reflection of my inner life and the related wishes and dreams of transgender people for companionship, love and security. Despite the fact sometimes resulting gloomy thoughts, spray my plants through their intense color my irrepressible, accompanied by pronounced vitality and curiosity will to live. yours Allesandra Tiller