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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. ”

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out. ”

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds. ”

One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one. ”

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence. ”

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. ”

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically. ”

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy. ”

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence. ”

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? ”