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Q:Who
is the artist behind the totems?
A:
Something about the person and history of Bianca Petra Neumann
Since earliest childhood she worked artistically. She thinks one of
the reasons that she creates totems is, that she has American-Indian
ancestors. When she was 3 years old, all the time she brought in her
parents house: stones, feathers, bones, dead wood and - for the fun
of her mother - dead animals. With the animals she always was thrown
out of the house into the garden and got the order "Don't bring them
inside again". So she sat in the garden or when it was colder in a shack
and checked which parts she could keep in a hidden place.
When she got
older she started to prepare the animals, to carve the wood or to make
sculptures with the stones, leaves, flowers and wood. She says that
she was never a big painter, so she ignored that part almost totally.
All her life she wanted to study veterinary-medicine. As soon as she
could read she started to buy animal-medicine-books and read all of
them in the town-library - her own animals had to suffer a lot. They
were always her test-animals. At one time her dog, rabbit, ferret and
cat looked like zombies. She tried every kind of bandaging on every
part of them. But they endured it, because they had a special kind of
relationship. Only the dog stared at the ceiling all the time; she couldn't
imagine why.
Later she helped her home town-veterinarians in their medical-practice.
After school the difficulties began. In Germany they have a restricted
access to medicine studies. You have to have the best censures, otherwise
you can't study medicine. Hers were not good enough. So she had to find
another way. She studied homeopathy, acupuncture, plant medicine, for
non-medical practitioner. For a few months she worked together with a
Chinese friend and they developed a new kind of examination method.
After 3 years of study she became a healer for humans and animals. Since
20 years of age she has had her own practice while at the same time she always worked as
an artist.
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