Prose
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THE WALL Currently, the focus of my artistic creation lies on the WALL pictures. My WALL is a continuous, potentially infinite series of images in oil on canvas. Numbered and signed on the back, each picture forms a separate element of the WALL. Starting with '0' as their departure point, the elements progress horizontally in both directions, that is, in the direction of both plus and minus. The motifs painted onto the individual elements of the WALL, largely borrowed from profane every-day culture, are selected following my own free associations. Doing so, I do not restrict myself to contemporary imagery, but I also cite historic material. On account of the sequential progression of the canvasses, the WALL offers me potentially endless space for the pursuit of all my associations. In some of the images, motifs protrude beyond the edge of the picture and are hence continued on the neighbouring canvas. In this way, any quote is theoretically possible, and the painful necessity of selection is at least partially defused. A conclusive interpretation of the image is excluded in favour of the artistic process. I am currently working on four WALLS. These are differentiated mainly by the size of their elements. In WALL I, each element measures 200 x 140 cm. WALL II consists of elements sized 140 x 100 cm. WALL III has elements of 120 x 80 cm in size, in WALL IV they measure 100 x 70 cm. All signs I quote on the WALL are interconnected. Some in rather banal manner, some for complex and sophisticated reasons. To me, the correlations are completely evident, and yet this coherence is not always easy to explain. If I was to capture my WALL in words, I would have to write an endlessly long text... However, since here I am required to shed light on my procedural methods, I shall attempt to note down key points of my chains of association. These 'notes' cannot interpret the WALL in detail, but in turn present themselves as a form of independent prose, like a song, or a poem: I begin (randomly) at element +2 of WALL I, Nibelungs 
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