Lounge

"The Lounge is a portrait gallery. The individual works shown here were created and are created from photographs taken with various analog and digital cameras or as screenshots, and layered or enriched through multiple exposures. I only incorporate images into this digital texture that fit thematically or as motifs with the overall concept." 

Till Heene, December 2025

Analog Outcrops 2, or: Widow Ihringer and the dying Gadaffi

"What remains as a manageable universe: the garden and the house, the living room and the television. The latter brings the world in. When enough is enough, and even insomnia can no longer keep you going, you switch both off or fall asleep to them. The connecting element is a color cast like analog sepia. It is probably the image of that sky from March 2022, colored by desert sand from the Sahara stretching from southern to central Europe."

Analog Outcrops 1, or: The prophet in the lending library

"It's a common complaint of older people to become invisible to those around them. Many take the offensive and hide themselves away. This old man, however, went to the public library of a small Spanish town. (In general: the lending library clientele!) He also saved on heating costs. He borrowed my pen and scribbled an explanation of his increased utility bill on the newspaper. Then, to put it politely, he cursed the government. 
'Do not go gentle into that good night.'

Young man in river landscape

May you never know hunger
May you always quench your thirst
May you sleep when you're tired
And then wake up with the birds
And the things that make you happy
Will bring you sadness
Bring you heartache
How will we learn from our mistakes
If we never let them show?
And we'll follow the river
Until our days are through
And they'll never ever
Take your dreams away from you

Travis, The River, 2024

Protection

"As close as possible. Thank you both."

Terminal Calypso

"Sitting there in the arrivals area, waiting. Delayed is displayed next to the flight number and arrival time. 
Time to clarify that a few things have changed. First: Odysseus is no longer wandering aimlessly. He's flying commercial, he's a pilot for a scheduled airline. Second: His wandering, if anything, is due to delays. Otherwise, he's clear-headed. Responsibility for three hundred souls and more, autopilot or not. Third: Had he been on time, she might have tempted him, but all in perspective. A dress, summer perfume, a bit dolled up. There are rumors that the airline wants to discontinue the route. Would Odysseus still come to this island purely for personal reasons? Zeus: the modern network planning of an airline? 
How profane it all has become. The tension is gone when myth meets technology. Homo Faber. A long wait for news via the airport's PA system or his smartphone, but Odysseus remains in the Flight mode. 
Calypso watches and observes the arrivals area. What she thinks about is speculative and at best a projection."

Fernando Pessoa (for a moment without heteronyms)

"A photographer caught Fernando Pessoa in front of a Lisbon fashion house in the late 1920s, a magazine (or book?) in his hand. There are barely a dozen historical photographs, including official ones from a contemporary photo studio and a wonderfully stylized portrait of a sensitive poet. The others are low-contrast images by unknown photographers. 

There are no photographs of Pessoa's heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Bernardo Soares, and the others. This raises the question of whether they actually existed. A symposium is held on this topic, where many insightful things are said, but the actual problem remains unresolved. 

Fernando Pessoa was long unknown in German-speaking countries. Only in the 1980s and 90s were his works (or those of his heteronyms?) translated. He was considered a hidden gem for..." Identity seekers. How disappointed I was when I first came to Portugal with Interrail. Fernando Pessoa adorned the 100 escudo coins and banknotes. Thus, this spirit was cast out not by his heteronyms, but by gravel. Only with the introduction of the euro did the haunting end."