Michael Ornauer (1979, Vienna) studied representational painting in the master classes of Hubert Schmalix and Amelie von Wulffen. The graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions and was nominated for the Bank Austria Art Forum Prize. However, in 2017, Ornauer broke away from figuration and turned to abstraction - a drastic new beginning. The diary entries presented here date from this period. Intimate notes from the artist about change and becoming are available in book form, allowing an unusual glimpse behind the canvas and between the brushstrokes of an artist's career.