INTERFACES (2010-2026)

At interfaces, rock, time, and the evolution of life converge.

 

These photographs are taken at the weathered sandstone cliffs of the Palatinate Forest, places that draw me back without my fully understanding why. Beneath overhangs and within fissures, mineral surfaces form contact zones where water seeps through the stone, allowing mosses, lichens, algae, and bacteria to colonize its porous structure. Color, trace, and texture arise from the slow processes of erosion and growth.

 

Mineral interfaces are considered possible sites of early chemical processes on Earth. Here, water, gases, and energy once interacted—the conditions under which the first steps toward life could have taken shape. The photographs oscillate between geological materiality and the concept of an embryonic realm of life.

 

The images are abstract interpretations of these experiences. As familiar scales dissolve, the surfaces open into visual spaces where the microcosm and the macrocosm begin to merge. In an era increasingly shaped by uncertainty, perception becomes an open process: meaning emerges through observation, while visible reality recedes into the background.