Petra's works of art often features nature. The earth and her beauty, flowers, the sea, rivers … . For Petra the world is a polar system, just as nature. Everything balances out everything else and so it is neutral again. She is inspired by nature where everything is in its right place. But also through culture, cities and through her own subconscious mind, the hidden center of the mind.
MAKING WORLDS, BRANDING NATURE
She’s very interested in minuscule life and its structures, uses her microscope or looks through her telescope at the moon and the stars. Over the years she has collected objects from nature. Shells, branches, starfishes, skeletons, butterflies, bird’s nests, insects, stones, minerals, rocks or flowers. Petra collects them all in her studio where the natural phenomena are waiting to be drawn. In her work she shows the preservation of mortality by conserving insects in her work of art .
THE BRIGHT WORLD OF HAPPINESS
Petra generally only create positive things, to take the good things from life. To make her viewers look at the world in a different way. For example by creating a skyline with people dancing on the skyscrapers, mountains with cut-out circles, the enlargement of insects or radiolarians. The image alienates. A part does exist and the other one doesn’t.
And that’s what Making Worlds is about.
