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For the last few months at least I have been answering some more and more pointed questions about the workings of Father Christmas. Our five year old son kept putting out tighter and tighter net of inquiries around me. It is not my job to disturb the magic, so here…</div>
Ho ho ho<br>
<small>Dec 26, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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The universe is looking at itself. I am part of that happening and I have a series of previous experiences that allow me to see the world in a certain way. But how many of these experiences are my own? How much do I really see and understand and am…</div>
Driving a little car through t…<br>
<small>Dec 10, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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We looked at the connection between my AI supported photography work and the concept of Cosmotechnics as coined by philosopher Yuk Hui. Here are some preliminary points that we were able to find: ChatGPT output: Witold Riedel’s AI photography exemplifies the concept of cosmotechnics by integrating personal, cultural, and emotional…</div>
Connection of my AI photograph…<br>
<small>Dec 4, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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We have managed to automate ourselves into an artificial heaven or hell. It must be heaven for some. Automated digital products clearly make it possible for some to achieve what seemed like complete science fiction not so long ago. We use machines to measure our steps, connect us to others,…</div>
In the context of the artifici…<br>
<small>Dec 3, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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This interview was conducted by AI for the “Begleitbuch” for the Exhibition “Ursprünge” at the Heussenstamm Stiftung in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Exhibiton was from May 29th 2024 until June 22nd 2024 at the Heussenstamm Stiftung in Frankfurt, Braubach Straße 34. It was part of the RAY Tienniale of…</div>
ChatGPT interviews Witold Ried…<br>
<small>Jun 21, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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It is an interesting thought that a few hundred years ago, the son of a merchant walked into the workshop of a roof tile maker and asked him to make him a tea bowl.The son of the merchant was Sen no Rikyū, of course, and the roof tile maker was…</div>
Poetry in objects pulled into …<br>
<small>Mar 11, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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when the house is beautiful, then the thoughts within can become more beautiful. even if the house is itself a thought, or an imagined edifice.every house and everything we have ever created began as a thought, or as a perceived thought. a dip into the giant explosion of the universe…</div>
a beautiful place here now<br>
<small>Mar 11, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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It was a strange dream. All dreams are strange by definition, of course. But this one felt a bit like a script. Not perfect, but with a lot to think about. I was aware that I was dreaming and I was also quite fascinated by the various images and moments…</div>
Clearly a dream filled with im…<br>
<small>Mar 6, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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It all started with drawing. It is all drawing still, somehow. My drawings grow and they intersect. They are an intersection of materials, ideas and moments. My photography and my ceramic work is based on my drawings. All is a growing process somehow started somewhere and then on its way…</div>
thinking about drawing thinkin…<br>
<small>Feb 27, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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This is just a side note. As I was about to turn off this big screen here, I came across a small note from a very old friend. He commented on a picture I took almost 20 years ago. And he commented then. It did not take long until I…</div>
Just a side note<br>
<small>Jan 11, 2024 (0 Comments)</small>
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I recently drove across Europe, in an over 30 year old camping bus. And I was trying to use as little diesel and oil as possible. But whom am I fooling. However, the experience was both profound and rejuvenating. Instead of death-scrolling, with my thumb, here I was slowly passing…</div>
From one lucky parasite to ano…<br>
<small>Nov 16, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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This is a new keyboard and a new screen. And by the time I will be reading this again, both might seem archaic. But I also have the feeling that I will need to run whatever I am writing through some kind of spell checker. So, all a bit of…</div>
On a train towards Paris<br>
<small>Nov 7, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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Last time I visited Hampstead Heath I walked around the Tumulus. I walked around the fence a few times, looking for messages to emerge, some kind of anything to radiate into me. I think it might have. The meeting I had later that day seemed a success, then it turned…</div>
Near the edge of a biscuit<br>
<small>Nov 1, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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The limits in the way we are and behave are so profound. Such weak fragile creatures, naked, dependent oil each other to survive and thrive. We can barely see and barely hear. And the feelings we have are beautiful and complex but we have not found a way yet to…</div>
God is not pleased. We have en…<br>
<small>Oct 14, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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Everything is interconnected. And everything is interdependent.We are part of an incredibly fortunate few, in a very fortunate era. This is the moment, the time, the place.It is impossible to overstate its significance. The art I create is the expression of a necessity. I am expressing what needs to be…</div>
Here now. Making art. With you…<br>
<small>Sep 26, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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For the majority of our time as humans we have lived in a profound symbiosis with the Earth. We used rocks to create our tools. Many other natural materials that came directly from the Earth allowed us to survive and to create what became culture. Our life and other life…</div>
Some thoughts toward a ceramic…<br>
<small>Sep 26, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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It took me decades to finally write in English, in a way that could be understood. And I wonder if it will take just a few more years for me to lose that skill? Not sure how this will work. Or not. And I also wonder if any more languages…</div>
with eyes closed<br>
<small>Jun 11, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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What is the maximum amount of time a human can be happy? And how strong may this happiness be, so it can last? How beneficial would it be for the world to make humans capable of sustained happiness? And what would be the cost of that change be on the…</div>
Fly?<br>
<small>Jun 9, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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Take a rock. And look at it with your palm. Do you see how the billions of years it took to shape this rock are touching you. Carry the rock with you, if you can. In the palm of your hand might be the best. Perhaps in your mouth would…</div>
Again<br>
<small>Jun 5, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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Much of what I left behind in 1996 seems to still be in my father’s attic. I managed to retrieve a mini-bus load recently. There are many more to still emerge. And with the books and paper layers, many notes emerge too. They are from before I left for New…</div>
walking lovingly through a for…<br>
<small>May 30, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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The circle of friends that slowly turns into something akin to a neolithic calendar. Placed on a plane near a highway. The roof gone for millennia. One of the monoliths seems to have remnants of paint on it.Many others have crumbled.One was taken away. Will anyone ever know how they…</div>
Round and round and <br>
<small>May 8, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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Some questions I was asked recently: _Have you ever used AI in your artistic work? If yes, what AI tools do you use and how do you incorporate them into your creations? _ A lot of my work revolves around the idea that everything is interconnected. We are on a…</div>
A conversation about AI in my …<br>
<small>Apr 30, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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It was at the beginning of the 90’s and I was working as an instructor for tv graphics in Baden Baden. For some reason the hotels in which I would usually stay were all booked and so I was sent to spend the night in a small bed and breakfast…</div>
in sailence<br>
<small>Apr 5, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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Everything is everything. This here is here because of you. And you are here right now looking at these words, making gentle sounds in your head. It is your all your voice, a voice that was given to you by the village, the family, the mother, the world. And…</div>
From Everything to Everything …<br>
<small>Mar 13, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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It’s easy to burn candles at both ends. And the applause is lovely for sure. But can you forget that you are a candle and just glow? Can you turn into a circular candle and not even want to be alight ever? Just a fat ring of wax, holding on…</div>
Both ends<br>
<small>Mar 7, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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March first. Think later. Imagine what is on the other side of this crazy brown hill ahead. And then the imagination will possibly reward you, if it is not very good. And it will punish you if the expectations it built are unattainable.The beautiful patterns of temples. The mosaics over…</div>
Think later, or never<br>
<small>Mar 1, 2023 (0 Comments)</small>
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It has been barely 24 hours since I turned off the light of the “Offen und Alles und Zusammen” “Open and All and Together” light drawing in the Schlosskirche (Castle-church) in Rumpenheim. I have received an important award for the piece, the Diana 2022 Kunstpreis. The award is especially important…</div>
An unexpected (art) experience<br>
<small>Sep 19, 2022 (0 Comments)</small>
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This is the acceptance speech for the Art Prize Diana 2022. (Sorry, German only at this point) Danke! Ich muss mich im voraus entschuldigen. Ich habe über 25 Jahre außerhalb Deutschlands verbracht, und so kann es schon passieren, daß ich mich sonderbar ausdrücke. Auch wollte ich auf keinen Fall vergessen…</div>
Kunstpreis Diana 2022, Danksag…<br>
<small>Sep 16, 2022 (0 Comments)</small>
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When a man suffers, the pain for him at that very moment might seem horrific and with no reason. And yet somehow it is that pain that could make those after him somehow connect to him and make him understand that he was not just a name or a picture,…</div>
Memories of a grandfather we n…<br>
<small>Oct 10, 2021 (0 Comments)</small>
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Today I walked by the house in which my aunt Gerda lived in 1981. It is in Langstraße in Hanau. (It’s “long street”, for those who are not familiar with German.) The building was from the 50s probably because Hanau had been completely flattened by allied bombers at the end…</div>
Langstraße, the Long Street.<br>
<small>Jul 25, 2021 (0 Comments)</small>
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This might not be the right time for promises. But it feels like this is a time for writing and making and for connecting. This very blog here was originally created as a response to 9/11. Thousands of innocent people had died and it was becoming more and more clear…</div>
On a spring day<br>
<small>Mar 27, 2020 (0 Comments)</small>
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It will rain today. The storm will be heavy and water will pour down on London as if it had been carried over from the Baleares by some gigantic left hand. But for now it is a calm and gentle morning and the birds in the garden are easily out-singing…</div>
Welcoming songs in the memory …<br>
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When I first started writing here, it was to create a counterbalance from within myself and for myself. The twin towers had just been destroyed, and from their ashes emerged both the feelings of empathy and kindness but also eventually a certain amount of hate. After the first shock settled,…</div>
The never fully explored count…<br>
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The birds have calmed down now. Just a few are still talking. Or so it seems. The days are getting longer so quickly now. And the complex morning symphony is more intense and earlier in the day. Can’t at all describe what was happening around 4:30. The fox came back….</div>
Do they ever meet?<br>
<small>May 25, 2019 (0 Comments)</small>
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The birds have calmed down now. Just a few are still talking. Or so it seems. The days are getting longer so quickly now. And the complex morning symphony is more intense and earlier in the day. Can’t at all describe what was happening around 4:30. The fox came back….</div>
Do they ever meet?<br>
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Self medicated sleep deprivation. I think I. Remember that it works. At least it used to. It creates the illusion. Of quick decisions, a pretend-rational-bubble. It is a bit like being drunk on one’s own toxin-mix. Amplifiers can enter through the eyes, ears, mouth, skin. The possibilities are endless really….</div>
Perchance to create<br>
<small>Dec 30, 2018 (0 Comments)</small>
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The tea and the incense arrived at the same time. They were ordered from very different places. Yet here I am, looking at the tiny hot orange dot in the darkness, still feeling the energy of the freshly prepared Kuradashi Matcha, I just had the privilege to drink. I sat…</div>
Or is this moment right now?<br>
<small>Oct 19, 2018 (0 Comments)</small>
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Every person, every living thing, every object, and even what we might not consider as anything; Everything is a transitional state of the “universe”. Including yourself, of course, and me too. We are under the illusion that what we are looking at is the outcome of a transformation, while it…</div>
Impermanence in impermanence<br>
<small>May 31, 2018 (0 Comments)</small>
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At the table in a smallest room of the apartment, with over a hundred boxes of books and items that would probably delight a hoarder more than me. I am staring at the big screen again, next to me a disk I am erasing completely, so I can give that…</div>
Terabytes and Thoughts and Tan…<br>
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I am not able to read Chinese really at all. Over the years I have been able to pick up a few characters, and some of them miraculously trigger sounds in me. It makes me happy to know that my mind is still hungry for something. It is not just…</div>
The Ocean Welcomes all Rivers<br>
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It was a beautiful day. And the day before today was pretty good as well. Who would have thought that there could be eagles in the park, and hawks and falcons and owls. And who could have anticipated that a member of the Terracotta Army could show up in the…</div>
A gentle wrinkle in the icing.…<br>
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The wood of the kitchen table had some odd grain patterns. Not all of it, just some of it had. Pieces of various trees had likely come together from different corners of a forest. The wood must have dried in some yard for a few years and was then put…</div>
Not worth putting on paper.<br>
<small>Sep 28, 2014 (0 Comments)</small>
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On Fifth Avenue the light was particularly strong, the shadows tripled as the light of the sun was not just direct but also reflected off the facades of the buildings, so purposefully. Tourists took pictures of tourists taking pictures. So many had come here to experience something meaningful and special….</div>
Mona Kuhn’s “Acido Dorado”<br>
<small>Sep 19, 2014 (0 Comments)</small>
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It is enjoyable to use that not very well documented sense of location awareness to float through the apartment with eyes almost closed, in the middle of the night. The moon does make things easier, of course, and so do all the little lights and sounds around the apartment. The…</div>
Passing by…<br>
<small>Sep 12, 2014 (0 Comments)</small>
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A sketch. The water comes from somewhere north from here. It might get here through strange pipes, but it does eventually get here. It might get filtered somehow, perhaps. Maybe not. It eventually flows into a transparent holder. The faucet makes a bad noise. It has been making that noise…</div>
Tea<br>
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The summer is leaving on a steamy ship. The air in New York feels like the inside of a bun sold in a Beijing street. Inside time has stopped for quite a few objects, and now we are arranging them into new and quite chaotic constellations. Plastic robots eat plastic…</div>
The steamy ship<br>
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When looking into the night sky, we observe the past as overlapping signals. It appears to be one image to us, because we have evolved to see single composed images that have relevance to us, not much else really. But what we are looking at actually are billions of years…</div>
About my photography<br>
<small>Apr 30, 2014 (0 Comments)</small>
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the little leaves on one of the plants turned a green so pale that i am not even sure the poor thing is still alive. what is it like to die as a plant? do the dreams of growth just evaporate? does the skin stop to itch? what kind of…</div>
On the Evening of a Foggy Day<br>
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The very early mornings are most magical still. Even like the one today. We are basically in a cloud now. The air is heavy with humidity, to the point that I could probably hold a glass out the window and it would slowly fill with the breath of my sleeping…</div>
smaller circles within circles<br>
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The boxer looked at me suspiciously as I was on my way back to the seat behind his. I felt a bit as if he were just about attack me. But I guess that’s just the way he looks at people sometimes. It was a bit as if his eyes…</div>
Brief encounters with a yet un…<br>
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like a not very well organized suitcase on a back trip, the collection of thoughts and observations allows for good arrangements, but only for those who take their time to make them. and every little object is somehow related to another little object. the world is contained in each and…</div>
looking forward to a very shor…<br>
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there is a storm hitting the windows right now. the sky is a dark white, yellowish, sounding like sheets of steel tin bouncing against the sparks of a large bonfire. the newspaper just landed outside of my door. saw my parents yesterday. showed them around the apartment. they looked very…</div>
important moments invisible to…<br>
<small>Dec 16, 2007 (0 Comments)</small>
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several walks today. variety of distances. several rolls of film. slowly getting used to shooting again. no i am not slowly getting used to shooting again. i have to relearn the most basic ways of seeing the connections that make decent pictures. finding that slideshow of some old photographs was…</div>
such an amazing luxury<br>
<small>Nov 25, 2007 (0 Comments)</small>
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“so did you write about a squirrel today?” “I would not write about a squirrel really, it would be more as if the squirrel wrote about me.” It took one and a half hours to get into the city this morning. the streets were not half bad, there was room…</div>
squirrel writes nothing.<br>
<small>Dec 22, 2005 (0 Comments)</small>
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“Mommy, why does the man have so much stuff?” “He is from New York, you know…” The kids were very bright, the mother was very friendly, the grandmother was very quiet and did not even make a sound when I hit her really hard with my somehow extended monopod stick….</div>
Stuff<br>
<small>Mar 26, 2004 (0 Comments)</small>
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Many of my drawings generally start with little clusters of information; one could call them nuclei, beginnings. I place them on a page or canvas and then let the drawing grow from them and around them. Some drawings are finished right where they were started, or months and years later,…</div>
About my drawings<br>
<small>Nov 27, 2002 (0 Comments)</small>
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I was allowed to sit by the window today. It was early and the diner was relatively empty. There I was, looking at the Bus stop, and at the man in front of me in the other booth. Behind him was a mirror and in the mirror was an older…</div>
Schmeer<br>
<small>Jul 21, 2002 (0 Comments)</small>
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