Initial studies in exotica at the age of three, research focuses on greeting rituals, doors, windows, and disguise; research continued in the Ruhr area at the age of fourteen with a focus on open-air pools, bowling alleys, and body concepts. Followed by expeditions as a student to the Cologne Carnival. Since then spontaneous assimilation of the exotic through literary grotesques. The novel Berge, Quallen (written in collaboration with Mário Gomes) was published in 2016.