The Serpent Angel soared fromt the abyss, it brought with himself the halo of something sacred and horrifying at the same. After having painted it, I had to dig into
![In Stahlgewittern](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-in-stahlgewittern-2020.jpg)
Somehow I fell in love with armored trains. Those powerful dominators of flat lands where roads melted in mud. Majestic and vulnerable at the same time. Monuments to steel, to
![Spiel](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-spiel-2020.jpg)
Als ein Kind ein Kind war , the obsessive repetition of Peter Handke’s “Das Lied von Kindsein” opens the movie “Wings of Desire” by Wim Wenders. As a fallen angel,
![Baltikum](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-baltikum-2020.jpg)
The Baltic Sea is a legend. From the birthplace of my german side-kin, to Josif Alexandrovič Brodskij’s line: its “aluminum waves, where the eyes meet no borders and the ears
![Transforming](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-transforming-2020.jpg)
While hiking in the woods, I suddenly faced a deer. Its abrupt epiphany and sudden disappearance let me think of the legend of Saint Hubertus. So, if transformation can take
![Savannah](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-savannah-2020.jpg)
In R.L. Stevenson’s Treasury Island, the pirate Captain J. Flint ended his life in Savannah (GA). Savannah, stylish and magic voodoo town, its mysterious ways and lightful nights. I simply
![Vietnamese Princess](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-vietnamese-princess-2020.jpg)
Some people have faces not of their own, some people wear them so well. Some people can afford to create a legend upon their own faces. This is inspired by
![African statue](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-african-statue-2020.jpg)
I often fall in love with a meanigful face, for burnig eyes. When this happens, I physically need to paint a portrait as a hommage and then… everything turns out
![White jazz](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-white-jazz-2020.jpg)
A one night standing, years ago, then a dream. James Ellroy’s (best) novel lent me the name for it. Los Angeles, mid ’50s. A club. Citylights and the streets, she