Reflections

Reflections is a work that brings together my love for nature and drawing, but in a new technique: Over the past years I’ve done research on different materials, trying to find a replacement for the resin-works I did previously (which is impossible in a way due its own unique qualities). I’ve been trying to figure out a new way of working where materiality is more physically present, free from the necessity of framing behind glass due to safety-reasons.

Comprising a diptych, each piece divided into four parts and mirrored beneath, the work reimagines mountains on a still lake. This configuration, which I liken to looking through a window, recalls devices in iconography and historic painting that mark thresholds—entries into another realm—where reflection is both mirror and passage. The image is drawn from memory, based on sketches I made during hiking trips in Germany and Switzerland. The work carries the kind of perspective found on a mountain summit: an expanded sense of scale paired with a moment of repose, where distance sharpens one’s sense of place.

Reflections / 2025 / handsawn plywood/multiplex / paperpulp / water / pigments / binder / uv-varnish / handmade walnut frame / works-size: 160cm x 57,5 cm / frame-size: 162 x 59 cm each / as one work: 162 x 118 cm = 63,7 x 46,5 inch