Landscapes | Landscape I | 120×100cm & 60×50cm | 2008


How To Explain It To My Parents, 90′
A serie by Lernert & Sander

Documentary serie in which 9 abstract artists explain to their mom and dad what their work is all about. Above episode 1 with fantastic artist Arno Coenen.

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.5

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“I don’t have any ideas myself; I have a vacant mind, in order to do exactly what the inspiration calls for… Art is responded to with emotion… art is not intellectual at all. … I guess I am rather extreme. I think we don’t deserve any credit. The inspiration comes to me and tells me exactly what to do… I gave up all of theory… so that leaves me with a clear mind. … An empty mind, so when something comes into it, you can see it… “

Abu Said ibn Abil-Khair :

“What’s in your head —
throw it away!
What’s in your hand —
give it up!
Whatever happens —
don’t turn away from it.”



Moonmeme: “A word is projected onto the surface of the moon. The meaning of this word is gradually transformed over the 29.5 day lunation period by the relative motions of Moon, Earth and Sun.”

‘I come to my studio every day at 10.30, and I stay and do nothing. I go to Paris sometimes. I have a few ideas. To be very pretentious, sometimes I believe it is mystical. Sometimes you find nothing, and then you find some-thing you love to do. Sometimes you make mistakes, but some-times it’s true. In two minutes, you understand what you must do for the next two years. Sometimes it’s in the studio, but other times it’s walking in the street or reading a magazine. It’s a good life, being an artist, because you do what you want.”


MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2005 | OWLS AT NOON Prelude: The Hollow Men

“Chris Marker combs a vast beach of images to create an echo chamber in which the viewer can either remember or witness for the first time the reality of a civilization’s self-slaughter.”




Exercises in Levitation (detail)
Bronze, Fire, Fabric, Propane Gas, Silver Leaf, Cable

Eno at Pop Start:
“…what Darwin did for life, we need to do for culture…”
“…culture is the way we look at ourselves, with which we can surrender…and try out different ways of being and feeling…”