one deep root

 

 

getting ready with catalogues

landscapes - rough material

rainforest I & II

birds portraits

[...]

In a way, all of them are related,

one deep root in our common ground

and the deep changes we are igniting

as a species

 

 

rough material / additive and subtractive processes

 

ROUGH MATERIAL

SHAPES, TEXTURE

 

"That additive and subtractive topography-forming

processes are so commensurate is one of Earth’s

extraordinary attributes. The landscape of other rocky

planets and moons look alien precisely because these

worlds lack such a balance in the rates of creative and

destructive topographic agents.[…]

However, life itself can alter the processes that shape

topography: there is strong evidence that colonisation of 

land by plants in early Silurian time slowed global erosion 

rates and led to the emergence of rivers with well-defined

channels. (It has taken humans only a few centuries to

reverse that trend; by some estimates, modern erosion

rates—accelerated by deforestation, agriculture, desertification,

and urbanisation—are orders of magnitude higher than

geologic averages.)" —MARCIA BJORNERUD / TIMEFULLNESS

 

the dark line / rough material

 

island 

fragments
reflection
the dark line, dark water

and the birds

 

landscape / rough material

Sunday sketch / a book

 

 

"How many days it takes is difficult to say. For here

there are no days because there are no nights. One day

melts into the next, and you cannot say this is the end

of today and now it is tomorrow and that was yesterday.

It is always light, the sea is always murmuring, and the

mist stands immovable as a wall around the hut.[…]

The way to the lagoon is like a journey into the incorporeal.

Mist above us and around us, and under our feet nothing

but stones. Large, broken, sharp-edged stones."

 

—Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night

 

 

"We make our way along the famously beautiful coast,

until one day we notice that northward the world is growing

lighter and lighter, more bleak and more lonely. The nights

do not darken. Bare and craggy mountaintops jut out the livid

light of the water. A strange cool wind blows to me out of this

primeval landscape. It might be the world in the last days of

the Flood."

 

"When she tries to take a photograph, Ritter says,

"It seems to me a deadly sin to steal a piece of this

supernatural scene and carry it away with me."

[...]"A year in the Arctic should be compulsory to

everyone", she would say regularly later in life.

"Then you will come to realize what's important

in life and what isn't."

 

—Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night

1938 / Foreward by Sara Wheeler

 

 

landscapes here and there

 

 

 LANDSCAPE / IN THE DARK VII

and a few other in the same serie

soon available in my webshop

> shipping worldwide

 

LANDSCAPE / SHAPE serie

in exhibition and for sale 

very soon in Solothurn 

8.11.2024—12.1.2025

 

 

LANDSCAPE / iceberg

 

 

fragments

 

 

 

LANDSCAPE / fragments / white matter

[ in progress ]

 

the Moon, little planet, rough material

 

 

 

landscape / rough material

mixed media on heavy cardboard 20x20cm

available during the next winter exhibitions

 

—the green field and blue sun

—White Moon and the little planet 

—pink clouds

 

landscape / rough material serie

 

 

—sketches

mixed media 20x20cm

winter exhibition Solothurn

 

 

last days in Lugano

 

. LANDSCAPES .

 

The island

 

 

—

the hills and the fox

 

 

 

the Common

 

 

[digital] landscape

the Common

thinking about Richard Adams' book

 

 

digital landscapes & sketches

 

 

 

sketches / rabbits

Richard Adams' book

Watership Down 

 

[digital] landscapes

 

 

 

 

LANDSCAPE / ROUGH MATERIAL

 

 

 

LANDSCAPE / ROUGH MATERIAL

 

 

 IN PROGRESS

 

 

—I had arrived in a pristine world that I could not have properly

imagined. Nothing felt stable; all was sterile, temporarily, shifting,

piling up, subsiding.

 

[...]The inner walls exposed layers of lava and scree tinged pink

from oxidation, or stained yellow where sulphur had condensed

around innumerable perforations in the rock.

[Clive, Oppenheimer, Mountains of Fire]

 

sketches ..

 

 

 

 

landscapes

 

 

shapes / the earth

the ground

surfaces 

 

mixed media in white frame

soon available in Lugano

ÀDITYA