Waferwall

at INabstracto on Queen Street West, Toronto

No one who has never eaten a food to excess has ever really experienced it, or fully exposed himself to it. Unless you do this, you at best enjoy it, but never come to lust after it, or make the acquaintance of that diversion from the straight and narrow road of the appetite which leads to the primeval forest of greed. For in gluttony thwo things coincide: the boundlessness of desire and the uniformity of the food that sates it. Gourmandizing means above all to devour one thing to the last crumb. (Walter Benjamin fresh figs)

using consumer forms for new visual vocabulary (depth, line, pattern, colour, haptics) my work is pulled far away from traditional artistic media in its approach. my artwork commonly includes text, image, confectionery and series-produced objects of everyday use, commodities, primarily however edible things, which enable a direct link to be made with the assuaging of a craving, especially when craving turns out to be uncontrolled and by its very nature unassaugeable. 

Marshmallow tobogganing on

Queen Street

..then I thought, well, pour some thing over it to cover the traces of your mind and of your thought. so I poured sour milk over these objects. this is the way I found out that sour milk could give me satisfaction.

Cloth peg Sculpture

at 

Byrd House Gallery

in Baltimore

the Black Square at the Rialto bridge, at the Dujardin, Berlin

I am not seeking to shock or make people laugh. Knitting, not dismanteling the incunabulum of the abstraction, recreating the black square with black licorice does no longer mean imitating realities, telling stories or using perspectives. It means creating a void, a void to knit in by seeking a new form of expression. sensing, gourmandizing my work rather than understanding it. The black square became the starting point for liberating art, It is not an act of Iconoclasm, not breaking down the visible world. It is about going beyond. No longer representing things, but transcending them.

das schwarze Quadrat

(hylé - techné - craquelée oder die empfindung der gegenstandslosigkeit)

NUN - die Kunst der Stunde. Berlin

the Black Square

(hylé - techné - craquelée or the perception of abstraction)