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Blacklight Paintings

"Fluidity"
"Fluidity" - mixed media on canvas - 140x100cm - 2012
The left picture was taken in daylight, the right picture in blacklight. So it's two pictures of one and the same painting. 
 
What's down there in the depths? What's this texture that I'm sticking my feet in?
"Cityscape"
"Cityscape" - oil on canvas - 165x120 cm - 2012
The left picture was taken in daylight, the right picture in blacklight. So it's two pictures of one and the same painting. 

High. Very high. Looking down. A metropole. Silent movement without noise. Underneath my feet swallows fly away. How did I get here?
"Mammatus"
"Mammatus" - oil on canvas - 110x160 cm - 2012
The left picture was taken in daylight, the right picture in blacklight. So it's two pictures of one and the same painting.

After a heavy summer rain shower, they suddenly were there. The most particular clouds I ever saw. As if I had landed on another planet. At the end appeared a rainbow.
"BloodBody"
"BloodBody" - acrylics on canvas - 170x120 cm - 2010
The left picture was taken in daylight, the right picture in blacklight. So it's two pictures of one and the same painting.

A human steps out of it's fixed comfort zone, sets itself in motion, views the world around it. A human of flesh and blood, in a world of flesh and blood.
Blacklight Paintings
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Blacklight Paintings

This project shows my backlightpaintings, paintings that can both be seen in daylight as well as in the dark, with a blacklight on.

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