I named this blog after the idea and natural phenomena of abyssal trenches. Those are fissures in the earth at the ultimate bottom of the ocean floor. I liked they idea of whole canyons and mountain ranges beneath the ocean, hardly ever seen by human eyes.

I've enjoyed the hard sci-fi of Peter Watts. His novels "Starfish" and "Maelstrom" explore a fictive world of post-apocalyptic proportions mainly taking place at the bottom of the ocean around and underwater power station called "Beebe"

Other than that I've been fascinated by marine life since I was little. Recently, I have returned to that interest as a metaphor for the sub- and unconscious worlds of the human imagination. These conceptions have been informing my practice as an artist on and off for the last 4 years.