"Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air."
"Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience"
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Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon. Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
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