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About me:

     As a journalist, author and photographer, I have always been a storyteller – reporting from many countries in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. My medium was words and photography.
   But over the years, I have come to realise that objects also tell stories... and how we humans interact with each other in harmony or conflict.
     So I began collecting objects: Alligator teeth from Florida, poster scraps from Ladakh, a snake skin from Italy, a rusty brooch from Morocco, a knife from Western Australia, the handle of a coffin from Ireland, a bullet casing from Corfu.
   For a long time, this was just a casual collection of exotic souvenirs. But with growing fascination, this unsystematic collecting developed into targeted salvaging of the legacies of human activity at selected sites.
   And because I approach everything I do with high professional standards, I have given my collecting activity a name and thus an official identity: Neo-Archaeological Rescues.

   When I work freely, I content myself with arranging the found objects on site, which already results in exciting ensembles. I document these ensembles and then leave them behind. In this case, I am acting entirely in the spirit of land art. For exhibitions or collectors, I fix the found objects into powerful material images or presentation steles.
   Since 2020, I have thus evolved from a journalist, author and photographer to an object artist with growing recognition.
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