All sorts of cosmic waves: gravitational waves, supernovas, cosmic radiation, neutrinos, charged particles etc. flying over and through our heads.
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Space waves
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Hobusel
One small booklet I made at work.
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Elusüda
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Aristotle’s Historia animalium
1. Since the 9th century, Aristotle’s Historia animalium, an orderly description of various creatures, had been available in an Arabic translation, which Michael Scotus translated into Latin in 1220. The decoration of the initials in this manuscript, which Johannes Heynlin purchased in Paris and bequeathed to the Carthusian monastery of Basel, is rich in drolleries. […]
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Why and how
The first drawings appear in 2011. I had been drawing them for a year before I started scanning into the computer. The beginning was more experimental and more different kinds of pictures.They were more like a story. Although I didn’t really have a specific story to tell. Later they transformed into something to express my […]
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Coat of arms
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Lovely letters
Psalter produced in the second half of the 9th century, possibly in northern France. Following the Psalms, which were heavily annotated with commentaries in later centuries (mainly the 14th and 15th centuries), the Psalter is followed by the Canticles as well as a fragment of a Litany of the Saints not produced at St. Gallen. […]
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Special letters
Artist Hans Haggenberg. About 1488.
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Depiction of women in heraldry
St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch’s (1462-1491) book of heraldry, containing 1,626 coats of arms of prominent people from the laity and the clergy, mostly from the southern region of Germany. This heraldic book was probably prepared in the Heidelberg workshop of Hans Ingeram for an unknown customer from the area between the Neckar River and […]
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Cave
