The four images of the Portfolio „Dreams“ (“Brainstorm“, „Der Clown“, „Diver‘s Nightmare“ und „Rumpelstilzchen“) share the same production history with “X-Ray”. “Brainstorm” was the very first image for which I used IRIS-print as my printing technique. This dates back a mere nine years, because it wasn’t before 1999 that non-fade pigmented inks for the IRIS, still being an exceptional machine, but no longer without alternative, became available. Working with my printmaker, now being a young woman, it became pretty quickly clear that finishing a digital print is as demanding as traditional printing. As a consequence I have decided to stay away from sending image files around the world, for competitions or exhibitions, because for me as the producer this is like printing “blindfolded”. What kind of “progress” can it be, if this artist has way less control over its output than with traditional techniques and for sending files instead of prints this is doubtlessly the case. A computer file without exact printing specification for a identical printing machine including the use of the very same sort of paper is more like musical notes, than a finished product. And it’s rather obvious that the origin of the file, if 95% stems from paper work or 100% is digitally made plays no role in this. If as a print or on a computer screen in a museum: Without the final touch of the artist himself, just the hope remains or put in an other way, the certainty that a good image is hard to kill, a small comfort to tell the truth.