Photography & Over – Painting 2010 – 2016

Some Person asks me what I want to say about my photography? I did not really know until I had this illumination… It is an obsession, needing, wanting, to see a physical transformation. It obviously began when I started overpainting Mona Lisa’s portrait, 2010, “first experience”. Letting my feelings, fingers go where they want to go, choosing colors, lines under no control… and under a frenetic energy, surprised and satisfied! It is like playing another role, acting. Being on stage, or behind a camera, which I practiced years before in Paris. I loved it, to be someone else. In present live I wish to be able to transform, to change my look all the time. After I feel well, lighter and new energies are flowing into my body, mind, heart, and soul. I found my obsession in looking at the portrait of the young girl. I like to look in to the eyes; the expression does not change, but the surface does. The model is offering her - self, in being her - self. Simplicity, and generosity inspires my imagination. I started to step into my own transformation just to be (me), in a rather long procedure. With ups and downs. Knowing, thinking to know, but I never know, I have to know again and again, no answer… Is it so important, to know? Able to be flexible, to move, not to stay still… Who has the explanation? Time is running… everything moves! I move, I run, I…………………You…we are……… I AM… running where? “When I look at the mountain facing, I see the clouds, the sun, the moon, and the rain. I want to stop the time, to catch the time…. I take a photo. Streets, people, flowers, the park and its live… The historical personality Marie – Antoinette is filling my live since 2014 and continues to inspire my work. (“When art is purely art, it has a certain magic about it. It transcends whatever it is, it’s something you can’t quite put words to.” R. Mapplethorpe”.) Cornelia Klara Poupard