Everyone knows Alcatraz, the famous high-security prison, where Al Capone was imprisoned. In 1861, the first prisoners from the Civil War were being housed on the island.
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Entropy tears apart our creations. It is destroying what exists to make way for new growth. If we suddenly disappear, cities will gradually be reclaimed by nature. Life can pop up anywhere and adapt, even to a rough and chaotic environment. My current work is centered around the questions “What will the ruins of our civilization look like?” and “Which species will survive?”
Therefore, I research abandoned places and ghost towns. I am looking into patterns, into the ways that events flow from one to the next after humans have disappeared and into the means by which new things develop out of old ones. I study the dissolution of patterns, the destruction of matter and show an artistic vision of the future.
Legends of the Old Cemetery, Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, a vibrant city with a Gothic cathedral and one of the oldest universities in Germany, is the place to start my research. It is the city where I was born and graduated from college.
