Tribute to Anselm Kiefer

The surfaces of waste containers remembered me to the impressive works of Anselm Kiefer, that inspired me to these compositions. For example: Angel Bird. The young, immature bird lay lonely on a road. Against the background of the garbage container, her mirrored image became an angel full of innocence. Just like as Anselm Kiefers work, this combination provides a new perspective that seems to escape the gravity and hardness of existence. Another example is Snail Escape. A photograph of a river that paints itself with wilde strokes and a photograph of a snail combined with a scale made with the help of Adobe Dimension. The river is taken with 1/8000 of a second, the snail ten times slower. This contrast symbolizes the relativity of time and therefore photography as time based art. The photograph thus tries to refer in an alternative way to Kiefer's philosophical themes such as time, destruction and decay. Flat Snake: the life from this snake was crushed by a vehicle. The hot sun had already dried the skin into dusty scales. But the decline came to an end against the metal background of a garbage container. The combination between death and hardness provided a hopeful escape option.