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NASCENT IMPULSE PAINTING

While a painting develops it extends all over the paper and sometimes beyond the edges. Consequently, the developing picture is limited by the paper’s format and thus “cut out” from the whole.
Even though I never follow a planned composition in my work, a pattern of clues and intensification areas develops naturally.

The mixed media technique (watercolor, pastels, acrylics, crayon, etc.) furthers the development of both, fluent transitions and hard lines and limits. By using this direct, intuitive technique impulses may flow onto the paper.

To me writing is an indispensable element. Besides providing graphic aspects contents conveyed contribute a further dimension to the picture.
The complexely intertwined systems of poetry and painting feature an individual dynamism.
Sometimes words stand out boldly or they look for disguise even to a point beyond recognition when they are absorbed by the paint.

The word-image relationships don’t lose any of their radiance, even on the threshold where wrinting develops into painting with words barely legible.
Traces inscribed into moist paint conjure up a sensation of straightforwardness, giving proof of raising impulses which make their way into the picture unobstructedly.

Futhermore, the date is a major element in work. It  associates the painting with a time setting.

There is a coherence of contents which, in fact, may develop freely on different levels – i.e. painting (color, line, contour, brush stroke), language (textual elements), numbers (date)  – however, they always interact, supporting each other.

My pictures don’t want to meet expectations. They simply develop.

Occasionally, by adding other elements, such as found objects, cut-outs, pieces of texts, etc., they grow into collages.

My experience of the moment is a basic element of the creative process. The painting process can be described as a sequence of continuously emerging impulses (snap shots) which are realized by painting and writing, and
add up to the final picture. The moment is transformed into “captured" presence, even though it has already passed and is thus preserved for the future.

So CAPTURE ART represents both: Time fragmented into snap shots and also a synthesis thereof (the SNAP SHOT SYNTHESIS), the complete picture.

But still time continues to remain a mystery to me.