Hello! My name is August Felix Heid. I am not an artist. I make pictures. 

I’m drawn to everything that feeds my five senses. They are the connection to the world. They are the world.

Unlike most artists these days I am not at all interested in involving politics into art.

On the contrary. I seek freedom, independence, almost the absence of any politics.

Freedom does not mean randomness, coincidence or excessiveness. What I mean by freedom is the enhancement oft he aesthetic sensitivity.

In order to find new forms, rhythms, and compositions I let the different mediums influence each other. For example, I may take a photo from a painting and use it as part of a composition on the computer. This line of work, in turn, has influence on the painting process. I compare it to improvisation in jazz. You have to know your material really well. And then you have to let go.

A picture evolves in the head of a viewer. Every viewer will see something else, depending on his or her culture, origin and experience.

I want to feed the visual senses of a viewer. Life and therefore the world is complicated and irritating at times. So are my pictures. But there is also rhythm and rhyme in all the mess. I hope the viewer will find inspiration, attentiveness, stimulation, and beauty. 

Making pictures is play.

Play is anarchy.

Anarchy is freedom.

Everything else is politics.

“Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays”

― Friedrich von Schiller