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Each painting is accompanied by a song. What's this about? Nobody can talk to me when I'm painting -- I'm in another world, alone with myself. Music has a big influence on my creative process. For most of my paintings there is a specific song which massively influenced the work from start to finish -- though no work is every truly finished in my eyes. I hear this song repeatedly while working and find myself in a kind of timeless space or trance. Do emotions alone drive your painting? The women whom you represent in your paintings appear multi-faceted and contradictory. Do you mean to say that these many faces exist within each woman? I am convinced that each woman is multi-faceted and often contradictory as well. I do believe that I am in a position to make such a judgement. Sometimes strong, and yet weak when she has to be; energetic, self-confident and indeed dominating as well. Nevertheless vulnerable, anxious and shy. To admit a weakness constitutes for me a strength. To do so, however, requires openness, something both men and women are afraid of. Yet if you don't open up to others, they won't open up to you -- it's a Catch-22. "Erotic art" is only one of your genres of painting. Do you use it to try to break a taboo or provoke people? Do you see a clear dividing line between pornographic and non-pornographic art, in terms of sexual motifs? Actually, I don't have any taboos in this area: erotic painting is plain and simply my main field of work. The portrayal of the sheer, demystified sex act, however, wouldn't interest me enough and, in my opinion, has little to do with eroticism. Still, I can contemplate painting just about anything that has to do with this subject matter. Yet I would execute it in a more differentiated way, with a dose of magic, mysticism and tenderness. In any case, the border between pornography and eroticism is a precarious tightrope walk. |