From age 6 to 12 I was living in the German Alps and loved it. I loved the mountains, I loved to be outside, I loved to play in the woods and to climb trees and the two things I hated most in life were visiting big cities and to shop for cloths. When I was 12 my mother left my father and my world literally collapsed. My mother had a boyfriend and I ended up staying with them. They were living in the industrial area of a small town close to Heidelberg. I never liked to live there but I loved it on weekends. On weekends these areas are completely abandoned. There is nothing going on and then there is so much to discover. It was so quiet on those days what reminded me on the Alps, the world that I had loved so much but had lost. And as back then in 1983 I took out my bike that summer and biked around in the industrial area in Williamsburg. Only on weekends of course and as back then I loved the peace and quiet. You might see photographs of industrial buildings, I see the alps of Germany.
