why do i draw (00) ?

this sketch book starts in 2011and i just filled the last page yesterday. on the first page i ask myself: why do i draw? a simple question. yet often the simplest questions are the most difficult to answer. there's no one definite answer. it's a bit like loving someone. why do you love someone? there are a lot of answers. yet there is no answer on the bottom of all questions. the truth has no name.

why do i draw (OII) ?

why do i draw (OI) ?

 

 

on the last page of the sketch book i discovered theses two hearts which i must have put there during the time i carried the book around: i remember the heart shaped leaf was given to me by my daughter when we were walking to the beach one day. the other heart was stuck to my skin after a night of dancing in berlin. why do i dance? why do i hold my child's hand? why do i draw? it's not the outcome that's of my interest. it's the moment. the moment when the lines appear on the white paper, the concentration, the presence. simple as that. 

the beauty of the old

a hongkong fairy tale

                    of flying ships and charcoal branches and a sky that has fallen into the sea.

shadows

auch weisse linien werfen schwarze schatten.... (even white lines shed black shadows...)

today i saw this withering tree trunk (papaya tree i think) and found it so beautiful. aren't the lines amazingly similar to my drawing?

my mother's garden

these are some pictures and drawings i did during the summer in my mother's garden. i drew with a thin felt tip pen. the other drawings are done by nature into the sky and onto petals with shadows and dew drops.