My wooden works are distinguished by an almost excessive aestheticism: At first glance this kind of aesthetic might seem rather self-indulgent, but, it is precisely in the moment of embracing vanity that beauty reveals its inherent self-destruction. In an almost Dorian-Gray-like-manner I unmask the Apollonian beauty by carving images of despair and loneliness into those glossy lacquer surfaces. On closer examination, it is our dark past: The outer border of the former colony German-Ostafrica.