Ludwig Zeppelin (featuring Paula Österreich)
mindful paintings
This isn’t really about me. It’s about the paintings. I don’t see myself as an important part of this, more as someone who happened to be there to do the work.
Whatever energy or presence the paintings carry doesn’t come from me as a person. It’s simply there. I just show up and do what needs to be done, like anyone else doing their part of life.
So, enjoy the paintings, and see whether the energy and wisdom present in them resonate with you.
Just in case you want some fancy description. Here you go:
Ludwig Zeppelin approaches art as a form of communication that bypasses the intellect and speaks directly to the inner life. His work grows out of a personal and ongoing curiosity about the nature of reality, the self, and the question of how happiness might be possible as something shared, rather than experienced alone.
He sees each painting as an attempt to hold an emotional and energetic presence. Through color, form, and text, the works gently aspire to radiate a positive vibration—offering support, care, and a subtle sense of transformation that viewers may take with them into their own lives and inner processes.
His paintings unfold through an iterative process between digital and physical space. Each work typically begins as a digital sketch that is transferred loosely onto canvas. Zeppelin then moves repeatedly between painting and digital manipulation, photographing the canvas and reworking the image digitally before returning to paint again. This cyclical process—repeated four to seven times—allows experimentation, error, and intuition to shape the work, gradually revealing its meaning.
Only in the later stages do language and text emerge as integral elements of the paintings, after the visual work has revealed itself through the process of creation. The philosophical texts and poetic fragments that accompany and inhabit the works are written primarily by Paula Österreich, whose writing responds to the completed image and enters into a close dialogue with Zeppelin’s visual language. Together, image and text form a unified field of reflection and emotional resonance.
The resulting works invite viewers into a contemplative space where visual perception, thought, and feeling converge, offering not answers, but a shared experience of presence, connection, and unfolding understanding.