I don’t always succeed in creating a harmonious color dialogue.
I do my best to round off the picture at the moment of creation.
When a picture has expressed itself, it is time to come to a conclusion.
What do I do with picture fields where the dialog has not succeeded?
I leave them and make peace with what has become.
I don’t chase after a more perfect version of the current creation or reduce the color scheme to the successful areas.
I give space and a right to exist to the unsuccessful.
This is relaxing and calming.
Socially, we come from a striving for perfection and have completely lost our humanity in the process. The product becomes more perfect and the human being, with his shortcomings, lags behind.
The trap of “Promethean shame” according to Günther Anders1, the feeling of being imperfect in relation to one’s own creation, only exists when failures and mistakes are hidden or erased in the compulsion to optimize.
Anders’ three main theses: that we are not up to the perfection of our products; that we produce more than we can imagine and take responsibility for; and that we believe we are allowed to do what we can do, lead us deep into the problems we face, especially when dealing with artificial intelligence.
It is precisely the ability to make mistakes, to perceive them as such and to enter into the process of transformation and healing that gives us pause in the delusion of feasibility of a self-destructive urge for perfection.
Mistakes and failures should not be eradicated, but are a sign of our very own creative power and a favorable opportunity for processual further development through transformation.
Transformation processes provide the opportunity to express truth in a more complex way.
Mistakes and failures are the fuel for these movements.
With my works, I encourage people to accept everything they are at the moment. However, without making yourself comfortable in it, but to develop further in it.
For me, this is how successful processes work.
1 Günther Anders: Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1, C.H. Beck, 2nd edition 2002