Visual Spaces

Starting Point

The starting point for my work “Visual Spaces | Visual Dreams — Between Nature and Construction” is a series of staged, analogue photographs that I took in the forests of Swiss Luxembourg. They form the visual and atmospheric foundation of an artistic process in which the external landscape and the inner world of the imagination intertwine.

The photographs play with symbolic motifs such as the egg, the bird and the forest — archetypal imagery deeply rooted in human cultural history.

Through AI-based transformations, I have transformed the photographs into a moving, poetic-surrealist video that expands upon and transforms the original imagery. The individual video sequences repeatedly return to the analogue photographs — and thus symbolically to the origin.

I have deliberately controlled the visual transformations, sequences of images and atmospheric intensifications, developing and consciously designing them in several stages. The AI does not function here as an autonomous producer of technical images, but as a creative tool within a controlled creative process.

“Visual Spaces | Visual Dreams — Between Nature and Construction” is a work situated between contemporary media art and mythological imagery, and is intended as an invitation to reinterpret familiar symbols. It opens up a space of experience in which nature is not explained, but experienced — as something enigmatic, transformative and never fully comprehensible.

In the creative process, AI becomes a co-creator of a visual space for thought, in which collective visual traditions, fairy-tale motifs and personal image archives overlap.

Through a conscious artistic dialogue with AI, the familiar is transformed and expanded — into a visual language situated between reality, memory, imagination and construction. Whilst the photographs preserve a specific moment, a physical place and a real temporality, the AI video generates fluid visual states that are no longer bound to any fixed reality. Between the two media, a field of tension emerges, comprising memory, simulation and control.

The Forest

At the heart of the work lies the forest as an archetypal space of transition and transformation, as well as a psychological and cultural resonance chamber. For centuries, the forest has been regarded as a place of transformation: a sanctuary and a threat in equal measure, home to the unknown and the hidden, the source of fairy tales, fears and spiritual concepts.

In the European pictorial tradition, the forest appears as a counter-space to the order of civilisation — as a place where identities dissolve and new truths can be experienced.

The Egg

The (symbolic) egg is a central motif in the photographs and the video. In many cultures, it represents origin, potential, rebirth and the as yet unseen. It refers to a state prior to form — to the possibility of transformation.

The egg carries within it the idea of latent life, which only unfolds and takes concrete form in the process. In the work, it functions as the seed of transformation — both on a thematic level and, figuratively, for the transition from the analogue image to generative image production.

The Bird

The bird traditionally symbolises movement between worlds: between earth and sky, body and mind, reality and imagination. It embodies freedom, observation and transition.

In the work, the bird appears not only as a natural motif, but also as a mediating figure between the original photographic images and the continuously changing AI sequences.