Michael Ornauer (*1979, Vienna) studied figurative painting in the master classes of Hubert Schmalix and Amelie von Wulffen. The graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and was nominated for the Bank Austria Kunstforum Prize. But in 2017, Ornauer broke with figuration and turned to abstraction - a drastic new beginning. The diary entries here come from this time. The artist's intimate notes on change and development are available as a book and allow an unusual look behind the canvas and between the brushstrokes of an artist's career.