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I’m a little slow on the uptake. I didn’t start listening to Depeche Mode until my mid-twenties, I didn’t start watching Lost until its second season was almost complete, and I still don’t use text messaging. It’s not surprising, then, that it didn’t occur to me to start collecting the work of artists featured here on Show Us Yours until I came across Heiko Müller. Like many artists today, Heiko not only makes great art, but he makes it affordable and easy to purchase online. Now I’ve got to go back through all my old features and look for more art to buy. You should, too.
Who is Heiko Müller?
Heiko Müller is a fairly normal kind of guy, who takes his kids to the kindergarten in the morning, then gets on the train where he more and more spends the time with answering written interviews than reading novels, then creates websites together with some of his best friends at the office and finally tries to get home in time to put his kids to bed. After dinner with his wife he goes down into his basement studio to work for a couple of hours on his creations. Sometimes however he loves to get stuck on the couch and watch „Germany’s Next Top Model“ with Heidi Klum.
Why do you create?
You might as well ask: Why do you breathe? The answer would be pretty much the same. I tried to give up art once. I didn’t work.
Never Wake Up
As an artist and a parent, how will you involve creativity in the raising of your children?
I love it to create things together with my kids. We paint, draw and build models together. This is great fun, and I always try to keep them supplied with quality material. The stuff they sell especially for children can pretty much ruin your day. If I like a picture or a sculpture particularly I’ll use it for decorating the house.
Giant Bear
Vacant, empty eyes are a signature of your work. Why?
Most people will be terrified if they find themselves watched by two glowing eyes late at night in the woods. But if you point your torch that way, you will be likely to discover a cute kitten with quite normal eyes, which don’t seem quite in line with the fear you just felt. I like to see what happens if you combine both scenarios. When the cute kitten stares at me with glowing eyes. I notice that many people are as fascinated by this motif as I am. Some even think there is an ecological message in it. That may not be my explicit intent, but I welcome this sort of effect.
Lil’ Throstle
On your website’s bio page, you say, “I am particularly thrilled by the kind of spiritual terror you find expressed in the paintings of the old Flemish masters.” What was this “spiritual terror” they were depicting, and why does it excite you so?
To put it simply it is fear of Satan and hell. I’m fascinated that this fear, which seems so unreal, is present in so many pictures of that time. Of course I first and foremost have those wonderful Judgment Day depictions by Bosch, Brueghel and Hans Memeling in mind, but I think you find this particular mood of terror in other motifs as well, sometimes even in portraits.
My thanks to Heiko for sharing his work. Please visit heikomueller.de to see more of his art.
If you would like to share your creativity, or you’d like to suggest someone for Show Us Yours, please send an e-mail to share@yorkrules.com.
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