ANIMAL STORIES
2003–2004
14 etchings on copper
Plate size: approx. 48 × 38 cm
Portfolio edition: 24 copies, individual prints max. edition of 18
The etching series Animal Stories combines natural history observation with surreal exaggeration. Animals—squirrels, storks, horses, frogs, insects—interact with machines, apparatus, and technical constructions. The visual language oscillates between scientific illustration, allegory, and ironic narrative.
The individual sheets are both precise in their graphic technique and ambiguous in their visual meaning: machines appear as prostheses for animal bodies, while animals appear as metaphors for mechanical processes. The cycle thus creates a dense parable about the ambivalence of the human-animal relationship in a world dominated by technology.