Handwriting
Handwriting is essential for me. Handwriting is one of the foundations of my work. For me, handwriting is an expression of my essence, something organic. My handwritten fragments of thoughts, texts or simply sketches of ideas are my true wealth. I also consider it my good fortune, and for me it is like a magnet. It constantly attracts my thoughts, my ideas, my images that arise in my head.
I consistently avoid writing down my notes on a computer. This turns my notes into abstract words that I can delete and retrieve again. It is a more or less arbitrary process without any magic or soul.
I need my handwriting because it puts on paper what has long existed in my head. It is the first preliminary stage, a tentative approach to the image that exists in my imagination but has not yet begun. When I'm out and about, I sometimes make notes on an envelope, printed paper, or whatever I can find. I don't transfer these notes to my notebook later, but just put them in so they don't lose the magic of the moment. This allows me to always remember my first idea or thoughts well.
Writing on a computer is meaningless to me. I need to be close to my notes so that I can develop my ideas further whenever I read them. This allows my vision of how I want to implement something to grow slowly and gently. A key question for me is always: How do I develop something and how can it then be implemented? Everyone involved in art will answer this question differently, or not at all.
There is a word, artistry! In my opinion, this is a completely arrogant, almost stupid phrase. If you forget the word in connection with art, something remains: the question of how do I do what and why? Not only in relation to the motif or the technique I use, but with everything and, in my case, with the cosmos, my faith, creation, the world and my own person.