| It seems, and this could be already the age, that my motivation to make art is getting more and more simple. At the current moment I could describe my work just as writing a diary before I go to sleep. I don’t care too much about the trends or preferred medias that current fashion dictates, like what has happened in painting in the last few years or other unexpected examples of tunnel vision in the global contemporary art race. It seems that today is a great time to make art focused more on stories and less on medium. I simply ask myself the old question: Why I am here? And since I am here, “What is that all about?” (That is no joke: I am serious!) And luckily I never get tired of this immature behavior. | 
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Olaf Breuning is a Swiss artist living and working in New York City.
Olaf Breuning, Double, 2002. Laminated C-print on aluminum, 122 x 155 cm. Courtesy of the artist.It seems, and this could be already the age, that my motivation to make art is getting more and more simple. At the current moment I could describe my work just as writing a diary before I go to sleep. I don’t care too much about the trends or preferred medias that current fashion dictates, like what has happened in painting in the last few years or other unexpected examples of tunnel vision in the global contemporary art race. It seems that today is a great time to make art focused more on stories and less on medium. I simply ask myself the old question: Why I am here? And since I am here, “What is that all about?” (That is no joke: I am serious!) And luckily I never get tired of this immature behavior.
I find the world today to be an incredible, complex playground for me. Sad and happy at the same time, but crazily colorful…I try to somehow get closer to the bigger and smaller questions. I try to understand it—or not. They are always more interesting for me when I don’t understand them. But finally, I try to make decisions, but they are more like Google results. No ultimate truths, only a nerdy question-and-answer ping-pong between me and me. So long as I still feel the fire and urge to make decisions independent of those of others, I am satisfied and happy to be an artist and not a butcher. …Nothing against butchers!
