1988 - 1993
early works
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tI started oil painting in 1983. The pictures here date from about 1988 to 1993. However, the last two paintings were finished after my stay in Switzerland.
The paining of the three boys with a dagger was my response to being mustered for conscription. War seemed like a game played by children ignorant of their actions. I acknowledge that this is simplistic but the virtue of war still eludes me.
The fourth painting was part of my ill-fated application to the West-Berliner art academy.
The fifth painting is a picture of Dida Zende, my artist friend, with whom I shared a studio in Berlin.
The last two paintings on this page are of the first to be finished after my return from Switzerland. They come from a time when I was very interested in Jung's archetypes, and the similarities between myth and deep psychology. I was particularly interested in the fact that both myth and psychology presumed the existence of a collective human psychology.