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This is where I post about my artistic process, and thoughts that move me. Updates should drop about once a month. You can subscribe per RSS or e-mail.
I don't feel at home. Is this supposed to be normal? Today, in this modern world, we could optimize ourselves all our lives and we would still have a feeling that something crucial is missing. Where … are the roots? Ich komm aus der Wüste aus Stahl und Glas ich komm aus der Wüste aus Angst und Hass „Durch die Wüste“, Ton Steine Scherben I grew up in a Platte ... weiterlesen
like islands ... we meet underneath the water (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Eine kleine Einführung in die Entwicklung einer fremden Sprache und Schrift für ein Buch aus einer fremden Welt. In Vibramundi, in addition to the drawings, I also describe the world, its foreign cultures with their peculiarities, their music, in a world of magic. But wouldn’t it be nicer if the languages and the typeface also came from the foreign world? Which … Vibramundi? Oh, I forgot to mention that I ... weiterlesen
the singing book
Why did I publish so little in 2024? Why where there no updates? What's for Christmas? And for real now, when will the first book be published? First things first: my website has now undergone a few minor changes. I can now run a regular blog on it (whose first real entry you are reading right now)! You can subscribe to it either with an RSS feed or with the ... weiterlesen
let's give the ideas some nice clean air to breath
Ficticious musical instruments want to be drawn into our world—I report on my endeavor. The art book project called “Instruments of Tamriel”, or rather its dream, has first been taken serious in January 2023. Since June, I posted a number of drawings of those instruments across Discord, Instagram, Reddit, DeviantArt and my own Website. But now the project has taken shape to the point where I can finally spill the ... weiterlesen
2 Sketchbooks, showing sketches of iterated stages of a drawing, which shows a dad and his son playing music on a beach at dusk
I will publish a picture from this cycle every Monday and every 4th Sunday—for at least one year I’ve spent the last months almost exclusively drawing fancy, invented instruments, shrouded in secrecy … but now the world may know about it! Starting this joyous day, I will publish a picture from this cycle every Monday and every 4th Sunday—for at least one year … The project is called „Instruments of ... weiterlesen
I will publish a picture from this cycle every Monday and every 4th Sunday—for at least one year
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At least once a month I will write a brief newsletter/blog post that deals with my artistic process and some of the thoughts that came to me as I went along.Newsletter in Deutsch an.)