I was born in Berlin – Kreuzberg in 1962.
After Education as a carpenter, I set up my own work-shop in 1989.
The focus of my work was the design and manufacture of furniture.
Since 2019 I am working on the transfer of colors, text and images onto solid-wood.
This technic I call a „PRESSAGE“.
The technology I use is the application of colour, text and structure from daily newspapers.
By pressing and gluing the motif facing downwards, I get a very durable imprint.
After removing the thin layer from the back of the newspaper, the desired colour/text and structure appears. The wooden panels are 2cm thick.
In creating my works, I transform printed newspapers, printing ink, and wood into relief-like pictorial
objekts.
In doing so, I transform not only ephemeral materials into a new physical form, but also the time
inscribed within them.
Through the technique I have developed, which I call " Pressage" , it becomes possible to transfer
something fragile and ephemeral onto a substrate that outlasts time.
A material that ages, fades, and decays is transformed into a lasting form.The fragile becomes enduring,
the random is ordered, and the ephemeral finds permanence.
My works are flat reliefs two to three centimeters thick, consisting exclusively of wood, newspaper, and
linseed oil.
These three materials share the characteristics of being natural and organic, based on plant-derived raw
materials, and fully biodegradable.
