NICO HENSEL
Beeing a graphic designer you need to have an affinity with diciplines beside design. My interests are architecture and
photography, beside philosophy, which is just a by-product of life but takes part in every day.
People may like or dislike my pictures, I am not interested. For me it's important to word my brain-impressions with my camera.
First of all, as a designer, grids are "your life". When I am out with the cam, everything around me seems to be free. But to tell
the truth, streets, houses, landscapes, fields and also people, their clothes and opinions... all made of grids and intersecting lines.
Secondly, these days art is a lot of bullshit made out of not existing intelligence and experience. Crashing a washing machine into
a wall and out if this, e.g. making a video installation while the crashed machine parts lie on the floor...?
Life makes our art, you just need to pass by and see it. All pictures are already there, everyday, everbody can see it, it's part of
our life, I do not add something just for a picture.
So in the end, the pictures "want to be free", as I snap them to feel free of my job as designer - but as I am a "gridder" (my word
for grid fetishism), all I picture is set into a grid. My grid of life wants to change your view about all you see in your daily life.
A wall is not just a wall and power poles not just power poles, all can be aligned to a picture as art, you just need to see it.