Fragile, handle with care…

This work refers to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The colors slowly transition to a white section, following what we see with the colorful coral reefs that turn white as they die due to the warming of the oceans and microplastics.

It consists of about 20,000 pieces of glass, cut from colored glass plates, ground, rounded in the oven, and sandblasted. The thin, fragile glass splinters emphasize the fragility. It calls for care at all levels, in dealing with the environment, people, and animals.

Skin Hunger

This work was created using the pâte de verre technique.

Skin hunger has not been a strange term since corona. Everyone has felt it in one way or another. Some have abstained from it, others have at least learned how important close contact with people is.

When I started looking for a way to give this feeling a visual translation in glass, I came across microscopic images of the different skin layers. These beautiful photos of clusters of cells showed movements / flows of cells between these clusters. There was something to be done with that...

In association with the softness of the skin, I chose soft pink hues. While working with these different colors and a complex layering, it became a discovery that opaque colors can play such a large role in bringing out transparent colors more.

From my background as a sculptor, I first tried to represent the structure of the skin layers three-dimensionally. Because I didn't get a feel for the result, I continued to work two-dimensionally. The final result is a large wall panel.

Layer upon layer, "glass skin cells" were placed on a glass plate, and glass granules were scattered between them to create color transitions. Everything was fused together in the oven. Once finished, the glass was sandblasted and oiled to achieve a satin-soft appearance that approximates the softness of skin.

At the start of this project, in September 2021, the feeling of skin hunger was central. Every day you heard something about the impact and emotional consequences for many people in the aftermath of the corona measures.

During the process, you experiment with the effects you can achieve with the glass granules, and you detach yourself from that feeling, and also from the microscopic image itself. You lose yourself in playing with colors and shaping the image that underlies the design.

Without Words Deafeningly loud in its silence…

The 'slumping' technique was used here.

This work was inspired by news images of protests in China against the far-reaching measures to contain the corona infection.

Because people there have no right to express criticism of the policy, they took to the streets en masse with a blank sheet of white paper in their hands. Thus, a white sheet became a symbol of protest.

This can also be viewed generally as a "silent protest" to give a voice to all people who in one way or another feel unheard, passed over, ignored, or marginalized when they ask for attention for their needs and rights.

It is a simple work, serene, powerful, and deafeningly loud in its silence.