2012_Tiefen, dir zugekehrt (Depths, Turned towards You)

digital image, various measurements

Courtesy AMVK, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin

Part of a series of seven, named Contextual Playmates. Based on seven pages from the magazine French Playmate, published in Copenhagen in 1968, supplemented by seven variations of a central abstract image. It’s about elimination and censorship.

The work contains a mandala that adds energy and strength to the sex-laden message of giving and taking. There’s an explanation of four steps on what mental action you have to perform with this image – for your own wellbeing.

Action:

• a. from shadow
• b. to substance
• c. from vagueness
• d. towards precision

Inspiration:

• Und du wartest, erwartest das Eine,
• das dein Leben unendlich vermehrt;
• das Mächtige, Ungemeine,
• das Erwachen der Steine,
• Tiefen, dir zugekehrt.

(Aus: Erinnerung, Aus: Das Buch der Bilder van R.R. RIlke)