Family photos

In this project I wanted to work with memories: e.g., needlework, which was part of a girl’s education in former time, the power of the Catholic church in the countryside, the narrowness but also warmth of growing up in a village in Upper Austria.
Using a very old technique of weaving (used by different cultures in the manufacture of jewellery) I stitched together old family phptos. I liked the fact that at first everyone thought it had been done by a computer.

Memories

“MEMORIES”, a series of photos of video stills deals with memories of places from my childhood.
They are photos of places, things etc., which will always resurface in one’s memory (although changed through it; which I try to do with my technique too), and which, like in Marcel Proust’s: “A la recherche du temps perdu”, the taste of lime tree blossom tea and a Madelaine, brings back a whole period of time, in this case,e., childhood. Surprisingly, the process of working on this theme gradually transformed the images from something peaceful and harmonious into something uncanny and anxious.

Ceramics

In 1996-97 I tried to transform the visual ideas of my drawings into a three-dimensional medium, -small ceramic sculptures. The drawings not only influenced the sculptures. The three-dimensional work also made me reflect on my work on paper (what a figure would look like from behind, etc…)

TUX Book

On Silver, and the Line

What is fascinating about the mountains of the Tuxer Alps is its proliferation of lines.
No other landscape is so rich in lines like that of the Alps.
Bedrock, broken and folded, scree, veins of rock among veils of green...
I wanted to break the drawings into a cocoon of lines.
I was also moved by the ever-present, white-silver color in this landscape:
The shimmer of carved and polished rock, the ice and snow of a glacier, the fog and mist of a rainy day.