KERSTIN STEPHAN

About drawings The hand holds the pen and lets it act freely. Sometimes the lines are rounded, sometimes they remain rigid. The lines and colors flow through the trees like the wind. I let myself go and allow everything. Through deliberately used structures and visual references to plants and organs, they give the viewer the impression of seeing something familiar. They are creations from my imagination, similar to a seed that slowly emerges and develops independently until a new life arises. Always a big surprise for me.

About collages In the media, we see pictures every day. These pictures seem familar, because they correspond with our learned ways of seeing and perceiving. Doing collage, I want to make reality look foreign to us again. Every day experience shall strike the spectator as the extraordinary. Real things from real life will look aloof in collage. This is my opportunity to re-see the world and to make the subconscious visible. I work on and with old paper, mostly from antique books and magazines, which I buy on flea markets or at the antiquarian's. This is a quite economic way for me to do art.