Why My Work Moves Between Architecture and Landscape
I live and work between mountains and sea, nature and urban culture, stillness and movement. This way of life shapes my art and the media I choose. Reflections on the tension between being and moving come naturally to me and are expressed throughout my work.
In discussions about artistic practice, coherence and recognisability are generally considered important. This is sometimes interpreted as the need to focus on a narrowly defined subject and visual language, such as black-and-white portraiture.
But what would that single subject be in my case? Mountains, architecture or night scenes? None of these alone reflects the way I live and work.
I carry my Nikon and my MacBook wherever I go and work from wherever I happen to be. I live between Central Switzerland and Catalonia, between mountains and sea and between two cultures. Between them lies the journey itself, sometimes with stays in France or elsewhere along the way.
Photographic art and digital music production fit naturally into a life lived between different places. Perhaps I will paint more again when my life becomes more settled, as I did when I was a little girl. The same applies to music: I began by playing the piano, while in recent years I have spent much of my creative time composing and producing on my MacBook.
The form may change, but my love of creating remains. At heart, I am a creative explorer.
Variety is not the opposite of focus
Living with variety does not mean merely scratching the surface. For me, it means finding a balance between openness and depth. When I am drawn to something, I focus on it intensely — sometimes almost excessively — and put a great deal of energy into it.
Because I put so much energy into what I do, nature, physical movement and time alone are essential to me. They help me find calm, recharge and return to myself. This is also where the quieter and more meditative side of my work comes from.
But the urban world gives me energy too: through architecture, culture, social life and the endless things there are to discover. I need both — the stillness of nature and the movement of cities.
What touches me most are the fundamental tensions that shape both individual lives and societies: being and moving, having roots and continuing to develop, preserving what matters while remaining open to change.
These tensions — between structure and movement, permanence and change, preservation and development — form the common ground of my work.
I return to certain structures, camera movements and technical settings in particular situations, which naturally leads to recurring visual patterns. The longer I work, the more clearly this recognisability may emerge. But I do not want to impose a fixed formula in advance. Each work should still arise from the moment, the place and what I perceive there.
And wherever I am, I see and feel the tension between being and moving.
