from lying and daying

In the blue room on the open ground floor of Barettino, 20 large charcoal drawings are on display – resting bodies, reclining arms, sleeping faces, dying trees, and splintered tree trunks.

The drawings of broken trees were created in the beech forest nature reserve near Neustrelitz. While drawing, I sit under the trees, on their leaves, my back against the trunk, the paper on my knees, a piece of charcoal in my hand, my eyes wandering up and down in the light of their bark and in the shadows. When I get tired, I close my eyes and fall to the side.

The drawings of people are created in Berlin in the rooms of the people I am drawing there. When I find the person in the drawing, the portrait is finished, and I stop drawing.