“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]