Sack und Asche – Inner Landscapes of Fragility and Change

In Sack und Asche


At the edge of a field path I came across plastic bags – weathered, forgotten, yet not gone.

Foreign bodies in the grass — silent witnesses of the Anthropocene. They fascinated me because they did not remain mere waste, but raised questions: Who had brought them? Why exactly here? What do they contain – materially, symbolically?


In the studio they shifted from found object to image. As I lingered on the question of why they held my attention, their everyday character seemed to dissolve. They became signs – projection surfaces for what otherwise finds no place.


Thus they were given a room in my inner house: not as real things, but as mirrors of inner states. There they stand for what has been laid aside, what we no longer need and yet still carry with us. 

From this inward shift arose what I call my ICH-RAUM: a space where the bag faces a mirror, not as fixed reflection but as self in flux – fractured, fragile, ever changing.


The mirror in my ICH-



It does not return a fixed image but exposes the instability of the self.
For me, it is less a surface of reflection than a threshold — between clarity and distortion, between presence and absence.

A still life followed, in oil, my medium of choice. Long devoted to the unspectacular, it now gives dignity to the plastic bag – no longer waste, but transformed into still life.


I start with acrylic underpainting, a ground from which the neon of the bags emerges. Over it, oil unfolds in successive layers, bind

In the end, the works ask how we bear what weighs on us: not repressing, but rearranging – giving the transient a brief duration.