Leaving the Past Behind

Progression:

Leaving the Past Behind is another ongoing project. I started it 2024 in preparation to my art show participation with Ponte Cultura e.V. in Nuremberg, Germany. The idea was pretty simple: Old discarded canvases from my business that were stored for a long time and had no other used anymore, were painted over with white gesso and then arranged in an assemblage of canvases. Mediums used were acrylic paints and pens. The idea was, in connection to the Ubuntu project the same year, to see each panel as a family of individuals that gets through connecting circles or or circle parts is influenced and conditioned. Meanwhile, the series grew to 27 pieces.

The first image is from January 2025, the second from February 8th 2024 and is a small paper sketch for the project.

Malaspina Printmaker Society 2001 and 2024

23 years ago in May I was invited by MSP to spend a glorious month at their fabulous printmaking Studio. Between working all day, two lectures and preparing for an exhibition there at a later date, I fell in love with Vancouver. Granville Island felt like heaven on Earth. This visit changed my life.

It was one of the most creative residencies I ever did, and Vancouver made a very deep impression on me. Even though I didn’t know it then yet, I was back in Vancouver a year later and started to plan AION art gallery with my Canadian boyfriend. Not much has changed on the island since then.

2024 I am back in the Studio doing Monotypes again. I am living just across of Granville Island and am walking under the Granville Island sign nearly every day onto the Island. This is home now. 23 years of ups and downs, heartbreak and burnout made me stronger. Finally I can enjoy living here once more and with my new Canadian Citizenship – October 30th, 2024 – I feel that I belong. For good!


Music clip credit: Alpha and Omega by Boards of Canada

EARLY BOOKS

Bookmaking and bookbinding is my passion since 1989, when I started to put my poems and art together in unique and small edition artist books. With my books of the day, a concertina with only 4 pages each, I had found the perfect medium to travel and exhibit in December 1992 and am using this format til now. See the post about them below.
There is more to come soon…