Everything starts with an experience.
The idea for a piece often comes out abruptly, and always appears very directly, from deep down my inner self – all my thoughts will then circle around the design and modelling of it.
Step by step I then move forward, starting by sketching or directly modelling in clay, wachs or plaster.
„You mustn’t torture the material“ – this remark by Fritz Wotruba accompanies all my experiments with something new. Every material has its own possibilities and limits which you ought to respect.
Idea and Matter
In the ideal state, the artist acts like a medium between idea and matter, beyond time and space, entirely concentrated on form, line, surface.
Sculpting is a slow process – it is delicate to define the moment of completion of a scupture, a portrait. One stays at it until it cannot be made any better, or shortly before – when it is coherent in itself. It is essential to recognize that moment.
Every lived moment, every thought and feeling, flow into this continuous process. What is being created in the studio, is a result of this experience as well as a part of it.
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If clay, wax, plaster or bronze – my hands are busy treating different materials all the time…they model, shape, scrape, grind incessantly. Something new emerges, something old reawakens to new life – each piece is created individually by hand and brought to completion with devotion. The same piece, with a differing patina, gains its own individual radiance.
