“Q.E.D.”
„Q.E.D.“ („quod erat demonstrandum“: „which was to be proven“)
was created Dec. 2010 - May 2011 with "Painter" (Metacreations).
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 112x76 cm, Picture: 85x57 cm Copies: 25, numbered and signed, and 5 artist's copies (I-V) Price: 675.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
As it is most of the time the case, concerning my images, this wasn't
the working title and for sure not the stolid programmatic motto under
which this piece was created. Maybe I should have named it "Eureka!",
because this image grew, starting as quite often in my work from the center
(for example the Pegasus with a wooden leg) ouf a feeling of confronting
myself with kind of "impossible" virtuell cutting lines and "anarchically"
placed objects, pushing me thus into a situatuion which usually only
occurs close to the end of procucing an image. I rather hate this stage,
because the final parts must keep up with the quality of the whole
composition up to this point, which is hard most of the time. In this image
I tried to make a wingless Pegasus with a wooden leg fly, to lance various
monsters, piling up mostly contradicting stuff, provoking failure. But what
could be more satisfiing than facing the obstacles and finding a way around
them, which on the other hand is by no means especially surprising, because
the "art making" part of my brain lets me do nothing, without having a
hidden solution in the back of my head. But this way "I" can think at least
I conquered the impossible, following the motto that those who can laugh about
themselves have a lot to laugh. In the end the only thing left was the light
blue area in right and I remembered that I had been told quite often "why
don't vou leave spaces without visual content in order to give the onlooker room
for their imagination". Though I never got this, unable to think of such a lack
of imagination, that someone would not "extend" so to speak an image over its
borders if this feeling comes up, I just thought in my anarchically produktive mood:
"Lets do it!" But doing nothing about the white space made everything dangling
in midair and I thought "for heavens sake" and the I found "sky-blue",
"sea-Blue", no matter: the right blue and now my Pegasus can fly. No wings?
Imagination, please....