My landscape art is often a metaphor of lost past, time and ideal nature.
It creates places of memory, by physically and visually integrating art into the space
and so inviting to look at and linger. It is about connecting the history and culture of the place: Visitors should perceive the unity of the cultural and ecological history of the place.
Once upon a time peoples set forth from the harmony of childhood; the harmony of spirits will be the beginning of another history of mankind. Men began and grew from the happiness of the plant, grew until they ripened; from that time on they have been in ceaseless ferment, continuously growing, inwardly and outwardly, until now mankind lies there in a chaos, utterly disintegrated, so that all who can still feel and see are dizzied; but Beauty forsakes the life of men, flees upward into Spirit;
the Ideal becomes what Nature was, and even though the tree is dried out and weatherworn below,
a fresh crown has still sprung from it and flourishes green in the sunlight as the trunk did once in its days of youth; the Ideal is what Nature was.
Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion
CAMBRIDGE HOUSING PEKING
Idea: Bring back nature to the people of the metropolis Beijing in an idealized form.
Objectives: Create awareness of the lost nature and provoke reflection.
POTSDAMER PLATZ BERLIN
Idea: Create tangible Nature in the city of Berlin.
Objectives: Create new links between city and nature after the extremely rapid urbanization in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin wall.
URBAN VILLA AND GARDEN FRANKFURT
Idea: Reconstruct the house and garden according to their historical origins.
Objectives: Revive the historical-neoclassical style andrestore the unity of history and space.
