“Maelstrøm”: Inner Narratives Manifest
The images in this collection are part of a broader, personal journey … they form a fragmentary narrative woven together from various bits and pieces of my dreamworld … they are a kind of conceptual-symbolic documentation of my inner life.
As I grow older, I find the world filling up with ever more pain, both diffuse and acute … external and internal. The world is permeated by rifts … disparities and cavities everywhere appear. The emotional states I experience in response often have a distinct visual flavour. Here, I interpret, actualize and make manifest the imagery that comes to me, absent rational form, seemingly spontaneous. ... This is my way of processing feelings of self-loss, atrophy, and fear … but also, on brigter tones, this is a simple recognition of life change, a statement of hope, and an expression of gratitude.
On better days, on days with less pain … I go to sleep dreaming of a world re-enchanted, imbued with the Sublime … a world once again enveloped within the atmospherics of the Absolute.
NOTE: All images are numbered sequentially, and the title for each image is indicated by its corresponding number, as follows: “Maelstrøm, No.[x]; [location, year]”
[6a]
[82a]
[6c]
[14a]
[22]
[20a]
[23a]
[6b]
[6f]
[11]
[24]
[20b]
[32]
[36]
[2]
[107b]
[7]
[34]
[44]
[6e]
[26a]
[30b]
[58]
[41]
[43]
[56]
[52]
[28]
[42]
[48]
[54c]
[60]
[63]
[68]
[69]
[83]
[45b]
[62]
[51]
[57]
[76-81]
[17]
[12]
[23b]
[45a]
[66]
[29]
[40]
[14c]
[74]
[67]
[84]
[101]
[82b]
[59]
[1]
[3b]
[3a]
[15b]
[9]
[107a]
[13]
[15a]
[50]
"Nach innen geht der geheimnisvollen Weg ... Inward runs the path full of mystery" - Novalis
[55]
[75a]
[70]
[71]
[5]
[16]
[19]
[25]
[23c]
[107c]
[75b]
[26b]
[30a]
[31]
[37]
[65]
[46]
[47]
[27]
[33]
[14b]
[49]
[64]
[8]
[53]
[73]