I'm going upstairs

Bye Bye August.

August has been a month of transformation. Many people I know, including friends, have left Berlin. Someone told me this is the Year of the Snake a year of change and I feel that deeply.

In my professional life, too, there has been a shift. This month I moved my studio from the ground floor to the first floor. The new space is brighter, more open, with extra desks where I can spread out ideas and materials. For the first time, I finally have a wall where I can begin painting canvases created not for exhibitions or commissions, but purely for my own pleasure and for the decoration of my home.

Alongside this spatial renewal comes a technical one. In recent years, I had cautiously introduced fluorescent acrylics into my work. I had always avoided acrylics, drawn instead to natural-based paints. Yet a large project I’m currently developing required me to purchase a full set of them, and now I’m curious to explore their possibilities.

My intention is to merge them with gouache, inks, soft pastels, and wax crayons, to see what unexpected dialogues might emerge on the surface. This mixed technique can already be glimpsed in my most recent works.

At the moment, I am deeply absorbed by greens and purples in all their variations. These colors move me: they calm me, they make me happy, they remind me of the forest and the garden places where life feels both abundant and serene.

When I select a color, for example green, I buy different shades and materials. I walk into the nearby art shop and search for every possible green. Another aspect of this research and renewal of technique lies in gesture and materiality: I want to see the alternation between smoother, more even surfaces and the more detailed ones of brushstrokes, marks, shading, water.