Accent, visual language, tone… many terms indicate the close relationship between sound and color. That, which on the one hand is easily understandable in ordinary language and on the other hand measurable with highly complex physical formula, has for years been my passion: the warmth of red, the cool of blue, colors that strike, colors that lull.
In my new works I assign each letter of the alphabet a color. The result is a collection of abstract, mathematical pictures. Presented together as a word, letters create a color sequence that also stands alone as a picture. But every picture is a word, and whoever knows the key can decipher the meaning.
The content of these word-pictures is strongly shaped by the circumstances of my own life. Thus I express in “Kontainer auf dem Meer” my own experience of coming to the New World, while the poetic “Amerka ist…” reflects my impressions of the Californian landscape.