…….I prefer to make such a quick sketch from the wrist. Combined with the magic of suggestion, guessing the true meaning, is for me the pinnacle of freedom in drawing and painting. Here reality and abstraction enter into a wonderful union………….What is that “reality”actually? According to Heraclites a moving process – panta rhei- like a kaleidocope. Socrates also made an attempt with his allegory of the Cave, which was recorded by Plato in his “Republic”. In short, every individual experiences the world differently, because of his genes, upbringing and experiences. Nature and nurture. Hence the differences in taste. One admires Rodin, the other is crazy about the garden gnome……………. Read at a chalet in Switzerland: Einer acht’s, der Ander veracht’s, was macht’s