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Today’s Artist Interview Is With Peter Seelig From Vienna, Austria.

Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Peter: Since my youth, as profession since 2003.

Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Peter: My first attempts started in school when I was about 16 years, my first love has forced me to be creative, if you love me, draw me.

Whopple: Do you make a living with your art?
Peter: I make “half” my living with my art.

Whopple: How many hours a day do you create?
Peter: There are periods with 20 hours a day and periods with only life .

Whopple: How did you pick your creative medium?
Peter: Because it is forbidden to take photos during performances I started to draw in the dark of theaters, drawing without watching the result, I called this ‘blind drawing’. Today these blind drawings fill about 40 Art Journals with more then 5000 drawings.

Another medium is to destroy and recreate photos with diverse photoshops.

Both ‘blind drawings’ and the courage to create out of a destroying process, the experience of movement are the sources of all my other art works.

Whopple: What are your inspirations?
Peter: Contemporary dance, theaters, women, faces, movements.

Whopple: How do you recharge when your creativity hits the wall?
Peter: Going to Paris Venice or Bern for a few days.

Whopple: What was your first job?
Peter: Assistant in Informatics at the university

Whopple: What are your favorite snacks when you are creating?
Peter: Cold coffee (I forget to drink it hot), colored chocolates (everything I touch is colored), never ending cigarettes until they coll on my lips.

Whopple: What gives you hope in the world?
Peter: That nothing is sure, that there exists every time a truth of truth which seems to be a paradox and which means, everything changes, also the truth.

Whopple: What are your artistic goals?
Peter: To find me in my work, to try new forms of expressions.

Whopple: What has been your most exciting moment as an artist?
Peter: During the opening of an exhibition a girl of about 9 years came up to me asking me the price of the painting Salome’s dance. The she asked how much would it be if she was my most best best friend. I say the half. Sure it was to much but then she asks me if she could write something into the guest book. Sure I said and she was writing for one hour about this painting, writing 4 pages, writing this picture it’s me.

To See More Of Peter’s Artwork Please Visit The Following:

http://www.peterseelig.com/
http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/account/myprofile/507246
http://peter-seelig.deviantart.com/

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Classifications: Abstract Art Artists