Most of the time I am in the mood to draw and paint flowers, just as I always feel like eating something. These motifs come from a series that began with a single flower for a dear friend. I kept painting flowers thinking of the people I would like to give them to. In this way, they are little meals for myself and for someone close to me, or an indirect portrait. This is a recurring interest of mine: basic elements - like stones, shells, worms, eggs, roots, smoke - in ambiguous environments. I am interested in what I don't understand, but what also feels like a truth. You see a flower, but in reality it is a feeling, a sensation.

I don't have a specific technique, but I've found ways that feel like me. Most of all, I like to keep changing materials, mixing them up, and constantly changing my mind. Each material has its own agenda, as if it has an opinion on the work we're doing. Colored pencils, ink, loose pigments, oil pastels, and acrylics. I like to use the material in a way that feels natural and easy. I tend to draw quite hard and I'm realizing I need to take better care of my hands. Over the summer, I want to get back into monotype, drypoint, and casein tempera painting, which require a lot of steps and somehow remind me of cooking.

I just moved from one studio to another, so I haven't really settled in yet. This is very close to home, I walk right by the water here (we're on an Elbe island), and I'm very grateful to have that in my everyday life.

For almost 9 years, a friend and I have been planning to do fan art about the incredible chair in the Britney Spears "Stronger" music video. The person is an abstract artist. I doubt we'll ever follow through on the plan, but I can't stop thinking about how we would do it and it brings me so much joy!