Arrr
an expression of begrudging perception, because here a whit too much always seems to appear from the extent of the actually favored aesthetic figure.

Arrivals
shows some photos from the year 1982, which I took at the age of 16. The developed slides were stored in a damp basement for many years, so fungus spread out all over the images as a stained veil. In addition, chemical processes have decomposed the colors in some places. For me these are visible time-traces that hit me in my transience and deny me a purely aesthetic access.

Some Pictures from my blog also appear under SPUREN (‘Traces’).

Gedicht/Poem
The text folder ‘Gedicht’ (‘poem’) in the project IM ZWISCHEN contains poetic fragments, created between 1992 and 1996. My former failed concept of absolute linguistic scarcity and compression has found a different kind of continuation since 2007 in the poems that are now gathered here: W(orte) (‘words’) are rare verses originating on occasion, which try to tell what was and probably still is in a simple way.
Sometimes words and places swing into each other without resistance.

Gedacht
Quick thoughts on photography

Observing mindfully while at the same time being observed: by the everyday things, by the invisible mystery of the world. This enigmatic exchange-relation moved me as a philosopher already and it is also the basis of my photographic work. Some aesthetic considerations of my pictures can be found in the ‘Gedacht‘ (‘Thought‘) section. –
My name is Frank Schlegel. I live and work in Berlin.