Water …

… is the basis and essential element of all life. Water gives birth.

The human body consists of 65% water. With plants the water portion is between 50 and 90%. The earth is crisscrossed by an all-connecting system of waterways, oceans, seas and rivers. The earth’s surface is 71% covered with water. The water, the resulting humidity, but also the permanent ice regulate the climate of our planet. Rain provides moisture for the growth of plants. Living things need it to keep the organism in function. Water power can help us generate energy.

Water is useful in so many ways.

Yet we exploit the precious resource, ensure unfair distribution, and through pollution as well as climate change itself, it will pose a powerful threat in the future. Nature is already using water to regulate. Massive rainfalls are occurring, seas are overflowing their banks, and on the other hand, the lack of moisture is causing more extreme droughts than we have ever seen before.

We already know so much about the most precious element today and yet we do not act accordingly.

For me, there is hardly a topic that is more essential for the survival of the earth and the future of humanity than water. Water is the main component of our body, it refreshes us and quenches our thirst. Water is considered a symbol of purity, stands for a new beginning and inner peace. And these are only the things that spontaneously come to mind.

Water is life and a treasure of our planet that is far too little appreciated. Without water, humans, animals and plants would not exist.

In my art I deal with the different meanings of the theme of water. This theme has accompanied me in my artistic life for many years and my enthusiasm to deal with it even more intensively and to discover new ways of artistic exploration is constantly growing.

I have translated this wavy treasure and this beauty into my work #wtr. It consists of 44 wooden panels, each 25 x 25 cm in size. Strips of oil-painted pictures were applied to the panels. To highlight this treasure and give it luminosity from within, the edges are covered with gold paint.