Spots

September 2012.

Two identical surfaces, 60 cm x 60 cm. One lies flat on top of the other. The upper has a 42 cm circular hole,

though which the lower can be seen.

I want to implement this simple idea of a collage on two-dimensional canvas. The canvas should resemble

the elastic, wrinkled skin of large mammals.

January 2013.

I place a canvas on wet paper, prime it, the canvas shrivels.

In search of a particular hue and its counterpart, I apply black, vermilion and crimson acrylic paints layer by layer with coarse brushes until the process comes to rest: red square area, black filled circle.

I paint the next picture using black, burnt umber, full-shade brown and cerulean blue. I move the top square half-way to the right and plasticise the resulting abrasion marks. The circle becomes a semi-circle and the area lying behind is enlarged according to the amount of shift.

In the next one, I rotate the upper square by 45˚.

Now, the second dimension doesn't allow any more basic movements.

Change to the third, to space. The upper square is squeezed, its circle is oval.

In the next picture I zoom into the black circle, into the Nano range, I find countless amounts of protozoa.

I visualise more pictures, zoom out, paint them. The square becomes a coloured object in white field.

Back to the beginning, square and circle, the matter becomes narrative, a fine brush is used:

A person is sitting on a bench.

A folding table is fixed to the opposite wall and in front of it there‘s a chair, whose back is pointing towards the person.

In 1938 at 9:00 clock, René Magritte had a steam engine drive out of his fireplace, and it remains frozen in this position since then.

Here in the picture, such a locomotive rushes past me and in the other has driven to where it appeared.