Colors I choose my colors in two different ways that during the work process integrate one to the other and give a consistent result. The colors of my personally developed palette range between greens, oranges and blues. Using their different shades I illustrate my different moods and feelings for things and persons. Green I translate as hope and rebirth. Orange is the color for change and transformation and blue stands for calm and peacefulness but nevertheless coldness. Red stands for power and/or pain. I perceive yellow as ambivalent, it can be attractive, beloved yet unsettling and hated. Brown stands for distance and tradition. Among my favorite artists is the photographer Gregory Crewdson. I like the colors he uses and the shades he creates with the help of light. Some times I look at his colors to take advice. He stages his themes and he handles color and lighting in such a manner as to create for the viewer a certain feeling of intimacy yet discomfort. His works stand as metaphors for his anxieties, neuroses and longings. He hosts the spectator in a world of psychological desolation. A world dominated by faded and radiant shades of blue, yellow, orange and pink. When I appropriate his color palette and I integrate it into mine I attempt to color my own anxieties, fears, dislikes and desires.
on identities and identifications
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