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Even as a child, I often lived in my own world. While others played outside, I would lose myself in daydreams and stories, paint the walls of my bedroom, or create little universes out of whatever I could find.

People often told me I had a vivid imagination. At the same time, for a long time I found it hard to feel truly comfortable around large groups of people. I was rather quiet and observant, and my peers often saw me as strange. But in art class, everyone would suddenly gather around my desk, watching me draw and admiring my pictures.

It wasn't until many years after school, inspired by my child's art supplies — a large box of colored pencils in countless shades — that I began painting again.

Over the years, I immersed myself in wisdom teachings, Buddhism, spirituality, and the question of why so much suffering exists on our planet. I observed a great deal — the world, other people, but also myself. Over many years, I encountered a wide variety of people and their stories.

Always driven by the desire to make a difference. To provide inspiration that alleviates suffering.

That is exactly what flows into my art today.

Not planned or contrived — but intuitive. I rarely sit down with the intention of painting a specific picture. The meaning emerges during the process. It is a reciprocal experience and realization. The alternation between painting and observing. The decisive impulses come during the breaks. It is a feeling that guides me. It makes me reach for colors and paint something I only recognize once I'm already in the midst of it.

Time and again, the same contrasts emerge:

The raw power of nature.
Something archaic, loud, and mighty — like a Big Bang, a volcanic eruption, or a hurricane. Forces that create life and destroy it at the same time.

And alongside that, the exact opposite:

The finest lines, the colors of the sun and the sky, and gentle details.

We were born of extremes. Nature itself consists of them. Of chaos and order. Of rawness and beauty. Of immense energy and, at the same time, incredible delicacy.

These contrasts are reflected in my paintings, but also in the materials of my jewelry and the natural structures of the stones.

My works are not meant to soothe.
They are meant to shake us awake and remind us.

Of the primordial.
Of the raw power from which life arises.
But also of the quiet, often overlooked delicacy that underlies everything.

We are constantly losing ourselves in the noise of this world — in fear, distraction, reaction, and endless inner thought.

My art arises from the need to break this cycle.

Not as a fleeting moment.
Not as consumable spirituality.
But as a conscious decision to return to one's own center — even in the midst of the storm.