When viewing my work you may wonder what exactly it is that you are looking at, what kind of message I'm trying to send to you, or what it is that I am trying to communicate ... My work is about just that: ambiguities and virtual dislocation (or dislocation of the mind); and the ‘gray zones’ in public and private notions of fundamental truths.
Central to my work are reflections on the personal and social sensitivities for constructing belief and value systems; both on an individual level and on the public consensus level. I’m interested in the norms we are typically raised and educated with but do not necessarily hold their ground in the long run. Moving from Europe to the US made me even more susceptible to these observations. Not because of the physical dislocation but because of the "virtual dislocation" – a dislocation of the mindset - forcing one to (re)evaluate in order to adjust to a new consensus.
As a person I became very intrigued with the ambiguity of language and how the interpretation lies in the hands of the audience and what that audience chooses to belief. I wonder about the triviality of communication versus the actual purposes it serves. My work also explores the gray zones between truths and non-truths, between reality and misleading reality, between actions and interactions and the gap between word and deed ....
My work is always moving into a non-space, where I have questions not answers. I wonder how the viewer interprets the fog I most often present so he/she could get some sense of clarity, and maybe even walk away with a form of personal meaning just as I did after I created the piece.
- Sieglinde (2009)
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