Technique: Work with hand-made paper
		Since 1997 the artist has made his paper by hand using a fiber selected for the length and strength of its strands. The artist calls his paper HANAKAMI, from Hana, the Japanese term for flower and Kami, the term for paper, but also for God. Fred Siegenthaler, founder of the international paper artist association IAPMA and H.J. Drissler (formerly JAPICO) technical adviser for paper processing, drew the track to Asia. From Chinese and Thai mulberry tree he creates an age-resisting, acid-free and non glue paper, in accordance to his artistic expression. After soaking for weeks, boiling for several days and extensive washing he strikes the fiber with a wooden spoon up to 10 hours so only the fibrils remains.
	With a large quantity of water and in enormous, swimming sieves the HANAKAMI paper is drawn. The freely poured format develops directly in the water and is not torn after it has dried.
	Pieces found in nature become part of the more or less relief-like search for form during the first years. Lately pieces dominate, where lightfast pigments are bound to the fiber by an electrolytic procedure. Then the sheet rests - the water extracts itself, making each sheet unique. On to the easel with long-handled watercolor brushes from Russian squirrel hair, pallete and mahlstick develop with hand-mixed lightfast pigments and without draft, often only with supplementary painting. Between material representation and fanciful individuality, creations of fine sensitivity, exciting spontaneity and the expression of strong artistic passion are born..
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