Interview

• How did you get into ceramics?

  During my first year at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Wiesbaden, I had the opportunity to experiment and try out different fields. But the moment my hands touched clay for the first time, I was sure that ceramics and sculpting were going to be my focus.

• Where do you find inspiration?

  I find it in the interplay with the materials and in the spontaneous process of the Raku and sawdust firing. I can only control the expression to a certain extent, the fire adds its own notes.

• How does your work reference Asian aesthetics?

  Through my contact with the ancient Japanese fire technique Raku, my involvement with Zen Buddhism and the traditional tea ceremony, there is a reference in the language of form and expression.

• Is a certain recollection of the past inevitable in ceramics?

  For me it is, since I work with very archaic shapes, so a reference to historical ceramics is automatically present. Every work is just a moment in a sequence of creations.