Lockdown demands new practices.
Watercolours
playing with colors and old sketches
The pencil sketches were drawn live. Colours were added later. There is not the same magic and we notice it in the results.
Sketching after the second lockdown
After some weeks pause because of the Lockdown in Switzerland, I could finally enjoy another life drawing session. This is definitely not like riding a bicycle. After a while without practice I noticed the hesitation in my hands. Though, there's something very...
Marriage for all
Parliament approved marriage for all in December 2020. However, a right-wing conservative committee has launched a referendum against it.
The right of being able to marry is not just a symbolic gesture for same sex couples, it should also give rainbow families stronger legal protections. Today, same Sex copules have to call each other „registered partners“, which is quite discriminating. It will be hopefully soon possible for a man to say proudly: „this is my husband“ or a woman: „this is my wife“, than that is what they really are.
The fight continues.
Sedimentation landscape
The potential imaging ability of random blots: The human tendency to interpret natural phenomena figuratively is probably as old as human language.
Sedimentation evokes images in and from Stones. The small-scale faults create surreal, gorge-like mountain scenery.
Is this a landscape?
Colour blots
This is a hommage to Mary Gartside and her studies, published more than 200 years ago: „an Essay on Light and Shade“, London 1805.
The path to the abstraction in the beginning of the 20th century was paved with uncountable such studies.
Hot cold hands & feet
The main difficulty in portraying the human figure is that we carry in our mind very strong representations of preconceived symbols, and every time we program ourselves to draw a hand, face or the human body, these symbols come to our mind and we end up falling into these symbolic representations.
I feel like exercising my stare. To identify the forms and thus recognize my own identity.
Quirophilia
The opposing thumb makes us unique, human.
The proportions of human hands are fascinating.
I like to admire them … light, powerful, strong.
Manuela & Janet
anet Haufler zählt zu den wichtigsten Performance-Künstlerinnen in Bern der letzten Jahrzehnte. Ihr feuerrotes Haar ist unvergesslich. Ich konnte sie leider nur ein einziges Mal auf der Bühne sehen. Ihre gigantische Präsenz ist genauso unvergesslich.
Podophilia
Feet are a masterpiece of engineering!