What fascinates me about my work? I am often asked about the motivation behind my sculptural work, the daily fight against physical limits. To this day I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer to this question. I believe it is work which just has to be done, an instinctive "doing", the inevitable impulse to "get to the bottom of things", and to reduce them to their essence, like an endless search for the form. I experience childlike pleasure in rediscovering it again and again for myself - uniting flowing lines and smooth firm surfaces with swollen, well-rounded curves, which are soft, smooth, warm, and indeed almost erotic to the touch. To capture one second of the course of a movement, to hold on to it, to exaggerate it. To give tangible form to a feeling. For this, stone offers me ideal conditions. It is a trusting partner, but at the same time a competitor, which only speaks through its form. For me the dialogue with the stone is like a retreat into myself. I submit to its silence and move, for the duration of my work, outside society. In this way I become a commuter between two worlds. My creations become messengers from this silent world of stone, entering the life of the beholder through the hand of the sculptor. |