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I produce my film sequences from digital photos. Starting with one or more source images, I adjust and edit my material to produce a continuous flow of minute modifications. These are almost imperceptible to the observer but eventually amount to real and significant changes. This method enables me to combine the precision of digital photography with the motion of film, the flow of a drawing and the craft of a painting. With no cuts, no changes of perspective and no zooming, my sequences are strikingly stationary. But at the same time the continuous trickle of modifications lends them fluidity and life. The observer perceives them more as a painting than as a film. As a rule my works revolve around life's unanswerable questions. Inspired by myths, iconic traditions, religion and philosophy, I take the observer on a journey through new ways of thinking. My most recent works have focused on the tension between the identical and the different, between the idea and its possible realizations. In Portrait of a Man , for example, subtle changes to the subject's physiognomy and facial expression lead the observer to make a whole series of different judgments with regard to the man's personality. And yet the same man remains the subject of the portrait throughout. The Frog Queen takes the observer back into his/her own personal experience of the traditional fairy-tale world. The conceptual work, 1001 Secrets, explores people's own secret worlds. By asking people to submit a secret (anonymously) to my collection, I am venturing into realm of taboos. In the performance part of the work the 1001 Secrets will be displayed in Braille, thereby remaining secret to the sighted but becoming “visible” to the blind. Chronos' Song explores the idea that as we move through time a central element is always a passing element. It can never be reached forever and is oblivious to anything but itself. |