The Squares series marks a decisive shift in my practice.
In this body of work, colour is no longer something applied; it becomes something that carries.
Leaving figurative painting behind, I moved into a space where no image confines me. What first registered as loss — the familiar dissolving — opened into something else: an unbounded field of energy. Within it, colour began to appear as presence — alive in space, directly on the canvas.
The square provides a structure that keeps me grounded as I move through this unknown field. It is a holding form — quiet, stable, almost absolute.
Within it, I work with colour as a living force. In the three-part works, colour relationships unfold through repetition, reversal and mirroring. A chromatic dialogue emerges — not as a system, but as a process. In the final panel, a lighter tone enters and something shifts: what begins as order opens into something more fluid, more poetic. Through the discipline of layering — again — I attempt to hold what does not disappear.
Abstract painting asks for time, and a willingness to stay. When I do, perception shifts.
This is where painting begins to open into something larger: not a depiction of life, but an encounter with its ongoing presence.
Here, colour is experienced as an open field — extending into space.
I aim for continuity, a sense of quiet belonging, and a place to settle, and to remain.
Eine kleine sprachliche Sache würde ich am Ende ändern:
I aim for continuity, a sense of quiet belonging, and a place to settle and remain.
