My earliest works that had a certain quality were aquarelles. Layering colors to reach color. Later on, as a reaction to that, analytic prints. Several layers of color were printed over each other with a certain system. Free gestural drawings at the same time.

This slowly revealed that i am interested in two basic principles above all. Combination and Variation. A limited array, a demarcation, a system opposed to the open field. A cube by Sol LeWitt in the forest.

The tape approaches exactly there. I am solely working with two strips of tape which usually serve as markers in public space, for instance in front of a danger area. Both tapes consist of two transparent colors each, aswell as two directions of the hashes.

Approaching colors through a defined system. Maximal reduction of means to reach the highest complexity possible. Then the Prints and wallpaintings as a bay/opening. Unintenional reacting to a predefined raster.

The term Workcomplex.

I consider all of this as painting. That is very important even though it may be hard to comprehend. It is not a collage. It is painting.

Dennis Meier, 2011