Painted during a residency in the home of the collector and founder of the Hans Arp Museum Johannes Wasmuth between 2014-2016, the paintings were loosely inspired by the surrounding works in the Villa as well as the reading of the short stories of J.G. Ballard's "Vermilion Sands." They represent a continuation of the artist's fascination with human endevour vs time and technology. These works do not intend to be prophetic, but they are nevertheless poignant. They are either painted in a slick, cold photorealist cut-out style or made with infinite grains of sand. The works fluctuate between the care with which they were made and the cold reality that machines today could just as easily create them.
