About the Researcher

I am an artist. I took classes in Fine Art at the University of Siegen, Germany, and obtained an MA in Social Sciences and Education.

After I graduated, I travelled through Europe and fell in love with architecture. I financed my travels by selling pen&ink drawings of the sites, I visited and eventually moved to the US, where I spent the next decade. I worked at an International Institute, helping to organize cultural education classes and events and taught sociology at Madonna University, MI.

I obtained grants to publish a book on the historic architecture of Detroit, containing about 40 pen&ink drawings an historical facts (www.imagesinstone.freeservers.com), and a grant to create four 6'x8' paintings to educate about the historical impact of GM on the city of Detroit (now permanently exhibited at the Renaissance Center, GM world headquarters in Detroit - www.generalmotorsart.freeservers.com).

I returned to Germany in 2007, to take post graduate classes at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn, and started the fascinating research on how colors and shapes evoke emotions and feelings. I had been invited to the American University of Paris to talk on the subject in 2007 and realized that I needed more data, then was available. This is when this research project was born.

I am currently teaching at a German high school.

For a look at my artwork, please visit:

http://christine.exto.org