Normally I do not really have a connection to painting and I can only instinctively tell whether I just like something or not. However when David Hockney presented his huge book Sumo in 2016 with works never shown before and therefore everywhere it was spoken of him – I personally rediscovered painting and payed a new attention to it. Hockney’s colorful images, which are characterized by bright colors and often graphic shapes, also inspired me in some of my photographic projects. Critics often accuse his pictures of being simply hedonistic and without a deeper background. But when you look more closely, it actually becomes clear that Hockney, under the colorful surface, tells his own story as a homosexual artist and gives comments on political events. At the end of that post, a little anecdote I have found recently, Hockney saying about the end: “From time to time people think that everything is going to end. But this is by no means the case. It just goes on and on”. (In an interview with Martin Gayford for the book “The World of Images”).