My work   attempts to look  into the many ways steel and stone can be translated to obtain a more
 humanistic metamorphosis. Issues that concern me often center on the fragility and  strength of
 humankind as well as  spirituality.
 
Since  1994, I have been  working on a series of books (DAS BUCH) cut from steel. They currently number 
71. They are personal interpretations of my history within a larger cultural  history. These books contain
steel pages, which can be turned and read, and they  are bound. The antitheses of paperbacks, these books
 are constructed through a  process of cutting, burning, and welding into the sheets of  steel.  In this manner
 I am able to  inscribe a universal language through form and line. The content of the books  emerge from
 memories: for example DAS BUCH 10 was inspired by a visit to the  Berlin Wall. DAS BUCH 18 contains a
diary like entry, another one in Latin  reflecting my interest in universality of language.