Radical Attention (Modern Hermit Project), charcoal and oil on linen, 151 x 245 cm, 2026, Andros, Berlin

The painting redefines eremitism. The modern hermit does not flee, but practices radical attention. On the back of a donkey, she reads a book. Above her hovers the Pig Moon. It is, however, neither a moon nor evil, for it simply feeds on our attention. By ignoring it and reading deeply instead, the hermit starves it. Modern hermitage takes place in the mind.

I am alone, yet not apart (Modern Hermit Manifesto No. 5), charcoal and oil on linen, 40 x 50 cm, 2026, Rome, Andros, Berlin

The humble donkey stands on the vast floor beneath the monumental oculus of the Pantheon in Rome. Alone, yet not apart. In the silence of this spiritual sanctuary, he becomes a living breath within ancient history, feeling connected with the eternal whole.

Modern Hermitage (Modern Hermit Project), charcoal and oil on linen, 40 x 50 cm, 2026, Dillenburg, Berlin

For the modern hermit, the hermitage is not a cabin in the woods or a cave in the mountains. It is an internal sanctuary, found within their own mind, in the quiet of their thoughts and in the deliberation of their actions.

This is what life feels like sometimes, the donkey thinks (Modern Hermit Project), charcoal and oil on linen, 40 x 50 cm, 2025,

New York, Andros, Berlin, London

So thinks the donkey, standing a bit displaced in New York yet perfectly at peace. Alongside him, the modern hermit sits relaxed beneath the heavy steel structure of the High Line Park, completely unbothered by the city’s noise. They do not need to flee to a forest to find silence. Instead, they inhabit this chaos in inner freedom, carrying their hermitage as a sanctuary within. For them, the retreat is not a place, but a state of mind.