Lost In Tension

The Japanese culture amazes and fascinates me with its supposed contrasts and particular aesthetics. The chaos of the masses, narrowness, noise, and neon contrasts with great discipline, courtesy, and people striving for harmony with one another. A life lived mostly in public, strict ordered, almost without intimacy is offset by debauchery and excess. Creativity, individuality and fantasy make up other parts of Japanese culture, whose particular aesthetics is defined by simplicity, asymmetry, transience and intimation. The perception of those contradictions and their interdependencies, visually implemented taking into account this special aesthetics is in the focus of my fine art series "Lost In Tension".