When I found in an antiquarian bookshop in Tubingen / Germany an old book with targets from the 18th and 19th century, I was amazed to see that the old shooting clubs used all kinds of artificial painted objects to aim at, not only animals, but even the goddess of hunting herself, Diana. And I thought that this target scheme would be a good way to show landscape as endangered, a beautiful object, but surrounded by our civilization. You lie about it somehow, when your painting shows it going on and on, and it is so limited, that you can hear the traffic noise nearby, and you let out the sewer half hidden by some ferns pretending it is wilderness.

Fortunately I found some round canvasses I could use for my goal to paint landscapes as a target. At first I added even bullet holes to the circular target signs.

But they were often not significant enough in bushes or wilder places and more to be seen in the sky or on other plain places, So I left them out and focused more on the circulars. They gave me some freedom not only to use the colors I found in nature but also imagined and with the time the meaning of endangerment faded away and the round shape became the positive sign of the sphaira, the connection with the universe.

It was a long way from the initial thought of endangerment to the more extensive thought of unity. The Seminary Woods with their wonderful nature don’t care, they just are, and I hope that they will be there for a long time.