Can you remember how it was, to remember last Tuesday? Ludwig Wittgenstein

Starting with the Line Drawing is a philosophy of life and who once became addicted to drawing, can never forget it again. In the beginning nothing was more important as to feel life with the pencil. In thousands of notes and sketches, in the Books-of-the-Days and the innumerable drawings that were done since 1985 I have build up my repertoire for today's work. The main topic of my work is the human being. Mankind as social beings and part of nature. People exist not only in real "rooms", but also in rooms of feelings and reminiscences. Since 1987 I use I in my paintings a combination between hand-printing, (stencil and stamps), painting and drawing. Series and repetition, slight modifications and positive or negative forms do create - together with the line as accent and the color as basis - compositions full of tension. In December 1992 I started a project which I called "The preserved Days" . I intended to make each day a book in form of a concertina. Since 1989 I'm working on artist-books - nearly eighty pieces now, each an original. I found that this would be a interesting task to force myself to a steady work over a longer time. After half a year of steady work I stopped for one year and started after two month in Brazil again. Now there are more than five hundred of them and the number is still increasing. I īm not doing them everyday but I try to do it as often as I can. The techniques and topics of this diary-like work are as different as the days are. All have the same size in common: - 13" x 28" - folded 13" x 7" They all are stored in a bookshelf. In 1998 I started to research the phenomenon of TIME in my work more closely. In my paintings I now use the following symbols to express TIME: - The fence for a point of change - The wheel for the steady "on-going" state of TIME - Time-marks for marking important events on the TIMELINE - Time-cages for limited periods of time, which will repeat. Objects made of aluminium-weave show a "interim" sphere of time that is not comprehensible and exist only as an idea. Since two years sculptures and installations in public places are a more and more important possibility to transport my idea of a fusion between mankind, technique and nature. Stefani Schneider May 2000