As an essential characteristic of my practice as an artist I consider the cross-disciplinary foundation of my approach, a background I see in accord with the heterogeneity of my different occupations in the past. The experience with disciplinary boundaries, with the formal and thematic confines of my professional engagement is a prime source of my motivation to produce work within an art context. Thus, the idea of a horizontal expansion of my venture vis-a-vis the vertical progression of the specialist becomes the theoretical as well as practical basis of my work, so to say the substratum into which my practice as an artist is set. Accordingly I consider my work in general (rather than the individual pieces) also as a form of critique on the unidimensionalities of society, on rigid categorizations and absolute boundaries.
Risking some pathos I would say, my amateur philosophy is directed towards a life of an enchanted dilettante capable of integrating a multiplicity of de-embedded professions, or professionalities, a variety of experiences of living. But following that path I care, not to nourish a notion of integration that concludes in the building of some arbitrary conglomerate, terminates in a random eclecticism. Nevertheless I consider an employment of a relativist thinking as a productive force within the development of an individual whole of cultural sensitivities, the discursive evolution of a plural system of positions, of standpoints and perspectives, of values, of a sense for my own weights, biases, distances and affinities. Finally I regard art as the professional sphere that has more so than any other the potential to accommodate such plurality, openness, and perhaps individual realisations of the supreme desire to dissolve the boundaries between living and producing, between life and work.
