Water Imprints (1996 - 97)
A series of 29 paintings exploring purely aesthetic problems of color and form.
The Water Imprints series was created so to say at one go. I needed to work fast because the paper has its own character and one should make it pretty wet, then slightly dry and somewhere in that gap – while it is neither too wet, nor dry – to fill it with color and shape. There is not room for deep thoughts in this process. What is needed are quick decisions and improvisations. That unleashes the creative impulses and the intuition and – together with certain chance (because one works with water) gives as a result free works without surplus speculations. The sole conception is the unfolding of the inner sense of composition and color.