The Edge of a Rainbow is a Fold Catastrophe
A project looking into the physics of light and our impressions of it, a combination of visual art, neuroscience, and physics.
This project is new, and this page is under construction. There is already a lot here, but images and text will be added in the next days.
Part 1: Sunrise
Symphony in a Park
The large-scale painting Symphony in a Park (2021), 320 x 465 cm, oil on linen, is inspired by birdsong in the spring, early in the morning, when the birds compete for attention from all sides and across different frequencies. Many visitors to my studio, however, first think of a city when they see this painting. I find this interpretation fitting and assume that what people imagine is a vibrant city—a city that has grown from countless individual contributions. In this way, a city resembles the park with birds: it is a complex system, where the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Begun in 2016, this work marks my first sustained engagement with sunrise as a moment of rising intensity and layered emergence.
Past that Leads to the Present: Light Layers
The perception of light and the reality of it, has inspired several painterly explorations since I moved to Berlin. In Berlin my focus shifted from water to the sky, the air as a connecting and dynamic element.
