Moloch City Series, 36 x 27 cm, Watercolor/Sketchbooks, 2018, Private Collection

Moloch City – Prologue by Audrey Hörmann

When artists travel, they take their special view of the world along in their baggage. The painter Sebastian Heiner has traversed the globe a number of times with trips to Israel, Jordan and the Caucasus. On a number of occasions, he was able to combine his travels with prolonged work orientated stays in cities such as Bangkok, Beijing and Shanghai.

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Moloch City Series – Cat - Katze, 36 x 27 cm, Watercolor/Sketchbooks, 2018, Private Collection

Cat – Katze

I push aside the heavy, brown curtains. The glare of daylight blinds me. The air conditioner whirs loudly. I look at the block of flats opposite. Some residents have strung their colourful laundry out to dry on rusty iron bars.

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Moloch City Series - The Voice - Die Stimme, 36 x 27 cm, Watercolor/Sketchbooks, 2018, Private Collection

The Voice – Die Stimme

A whisper, soft and insistent, talks to me, burying into my sub-conscious, my thought processes are confused, I see an unknown space in the sky, a narrow strip of light, I am flying in a dream, clouds float, driven by the wind, white mountains tower higher and higher.

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Moloch City Series - City - Stadt, 36 x 27 cm, Watercolor/Sketchbooks, 2018, Private Collection

City – Stadt

Houses collapsing. Towers winding up into the sky. People run without orientation on the streets. Where am I? Daylight blinds me. I stand at the exit of a metro station and look at intersections, bridges, underpasses and overpasses, I see streets swimming in a sea of houses and have to turn away.

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