From a scientific perspective, creativity is your ability to think of something original from connections made between pre-existing ideas in your brain. These connections are controlled by neurotransmitters like adenosine, which alerts your brain when you’re running out of energy and reacts.

Art originates in and transcends every day life — it’s a bit like Plug & Play…

[First posted in December 2023]

For me, “plug & play” means the use of computer and software as a tool, comparable to paintbrush and oil or watercolor paint, pencil and ink, pen or ruler. It is not about computer art, especially not about artificial intelligence and process-engineered artworks.

It is about the tool-like nature of implementing analog concepts/ideas in a real working environment. Word-processing, graphics, and publishing software have been part of our life context for many years, and that’s where art is created.

Brain, mood and transformations on coffee

Coffee keeps me and my brain in good spirits and is conducive to artistic transformation processes. Coffee is always present when artistic ideas are conceived and implemented. The first thing I do before I start working is make a cup of coffee.

The fact that we think both in images and in words is nothing new and since we are constantly thinking, we have

Images in our Minds

all the time. The way we see things and the world is based on the idea/the image that we form of them. Words are images in themselves, languages an inexhaustible source of images und undergo transformations that we often/usually do not perceive.

Speaking of words – I originally planned to write the texts on this site in international phonetic language, but because this language is too tedious to read I decided to use English as lingua franca instead.