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I think in musical terms in that sense; what is the melody, what the counterpoint or the twist, etc. This helps to prevent distraction and to stay attentive. When we accept by rote that it is time to work we don't resist getting started, we just begin, it is not a choice, it is an assumption. Is that ongoing?

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I have gone to a therapist a couple of times over the years for maybe a few months at a time. So when you say "something I learned in therapy" do you mean that the limited time a person spends in a session, say one hour, that you feel compelled to deal with an issue in that short span of time? Or are you referring to some other sort of 'phycological stuckness' like indecision?

That is an interesting thought, the idea of being stuck in an image which might mean getting lost in an image and not being able to stand back away from it and consider it from a wider viewpoint. I used to work on sound or audio collages on the computer sometimes maybe 15 or 20 years ago and I would definitely get lost in that audio soundscape as if disembodied.

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Putting a limit on the time was very helpful. Otherwise, I might forget my life and just keep working on it for endless hours and never find the edges or the completion point. Sometimes that used to happen when making a complex painting. I would just get lost in it for days and days and not get to a finish point. I imagine that is a serious problem for a composer working on a symphony or a writer working on a long novel that will take a very extended time to bring to a conclusion.

That problem of getting lost in it requires a strategy. But as a creative you have to find yourself in the middle of that kind of problem before you can start to strategize a solution of how to keep going in a sustainable way. He has received no awards and no commissions. The artist prefers absolute freedom and rejects the art circus with the dependencies that it induces.

He has had some exhibitions in Switzerland. He is currently living in Geneva and France. Search for:.

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As we came to no agreement, I accepted going to Switzerland in order to study translation. I accepted. But when I was there, I soon switched to the local art school, without saying it to my parents. When I got my diploma inmy parents cut my living and I had to work and couldn't paint so much any more. These years were frustrating. And I got married.

When I had some time left, I stole it for my beloved art. I soon went through a major crisis of inspiration and started collage after a long pause in This is one of my first collages When I look at it, I am tempted to simplify it. But the space looks interesting to me. Here an example from the seventies. I remember driving on the lakeside with it tied up on the roof of the car and suddenly flowing away in the air I made collages like this one, called departure.

After this serie which lasted years, I went back to painting and tried to paint from scratch: first in one color, because I felt that I had to go back to fundamental problems like composition, meaning etc. Here is an example I still like: Desire. As you can see, I worked with an aerograph. I imagined a sole woman in a train looking through the window.

Denise, acrylic painting. I then began a serie of landscapes inspired by my trips and tours. I tried to translate my emotions through color. I started with one color and associated the other ones very spontaneously. The following painting from Coll. Stephanus doesn't spoon feed us the images like babies who need predigested and highly refined mush.

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He offers raw experience restated like a clever insider joke in a conversation between old and sophisticated friends. The result is a delightful combination of surprising and often challenging compositions that exude confidence, a fine sense of humor and a love for a dada-like irreverent and open eyed exploration and commentary on daily life in the modern world.

It is with great pleasure that we present this portfolio of ten works generously donated by the artist to the collage museum. Three of Berni's images were used as illustrations in a Swiss newspaper in one two three Berni Stephanus web site.