-What’s the importance of this portrait series for you personally? Carolina: When I’m painting a self-portrait, I’m looking in a mirror or at a photo. At first, I try to capture the right physical forms of my face. Simultaneously, something else starts to happen. I also try to express my personality. How did I feel, what activities made my days? Did these daily activities satisfy me? The physical form and the personality melt together. Do not ask me how that works, because I don’t have an answer. Quite special in making this series was that it brought me back in time. The memory of these young Carolinas became so vivid when I was painting them, that I felt as if they were still alive in me, even now I’m older. So, I re-encountered different parts of myself by painting them. The union of these parts forms the series, the whole of my life, the whole that makes up the person I am today.
-Art can be used for political, economic and religious reasons as we know from history. Do you intend to communicate a message with your artworks? Carolina: I can’ t imagine art that has nothing to tell. I am a human, I create from my life-vision that colors all that I do. I love this planet, the nature of the earth, the animals and the humans. While growing older, I become more and more amazed by the enormous diversity among humans and their cultures. Yet, at the same time, I see at least as many biologically determined similarities. What we humans have in common deserves our attention as well. I would wish that the humans of today and tomorrow would become more and more aware of that what connects them and that they would learn to cope with human diversity. In my opinion that diversity is interesting, inevitable and necessary. It allows us to help and inspire each other. I am a dreamer. I dream of a beautiful world on this beautiful earth. When we focus on what connects us, we can realize that dream together.