Flowers are picked into their components, gently or force pressed and preserved with special procedures. Finest structures are created in this process. I am interested in the materiality of this fine material. The plant cells - the smallest living units of all living organisms - evidently contain millennia-old secrets.

In my collection are thousands of pressed flower parts. Some seem to have the same shape and structure. On closer inspection, however, no petal looks like another. The flowers reflect familiar forms of the present.

They become my design material. In the work of art "Taurinus" it was originally the flower of the Protea purpurea, the African national flower. Decomposed into its components, every calyx, every petal becomes a tri-color material. Finest hairs can be recognized, such as bones they come from and inspired me to this work.

At certain times, I obsessively collect a particular flower, experimenting with different pressure on pressing to get a different expression. I take advantage of the different stages of flowering, as the material is different. With this I draw the secret from the flowers. My sketches or even larger poetic works are created from this material, which I made. They are in themselves irretrievable and unique, since no flower in nature occurs twice. There is a fascination in it. This gives me the opportunity to express myself artistically and to communicate.

I make something visible, which otherwise would not exist. that is a happy moment of my work. More and more questions arise. Sometimes I have to wait another year before the cycle of nature reflects this particular flower variety and I can continue exploring.

Blossoms already carry death when they bloom, the finest cell structures are revealed through the compression, specially mixed glazes protect the material, if it is immortalized in the picture. It all depends on how I handle the material, move it, dissect it, trap it. Which paper is used, what speed of drying - all this has an influence on the result. It is a huge field of research. Depending on the nature, location, moment of growth or wilting, an almost identical material reveals a different structure, texture, and color. I use this in my pictures, there is poetry, movement, endless possibilities of expression. The examination of special glue formulations

And there is always the reverence for nature that speaks tome, of which I am a part - even just a pile of cells, fed from the primal information of the plant cell - but with the ability to express myself and to communicate. I go on, as it were, and expand my gaze to what nature offers, whose component and guardian I am. The flower material, my exploration of nature animates me to stagings of archaic, fabled, symbolic or mysterious imagery. I want to seduce people to face nature with imagination and awe. Everything is there if one succeeds in sharpening the gaze, on the diversity of what surrounds us and of which we are part. My suggestion is to make this visible in my pictures.