Vanitas VIII is a testament to Anderle's extraordinary draftsmanship. Fruits and flowers float in the upper half of the sheet; curling leaves and over-ripe apples hint at inevitable decay. A woman's face looks out but is unseeing. To her right we see a movement toward her youthful profile and to her left is a metamophosis to old age.

It is said that in 1963 Anderle saw his own death in a waking dream. His years as a drummer and actor/mime in the Black Theatre, which toured throughout Europe, have endowed his art with the lyricism of dance movement and the manipulated reality of staged narrative.

Never drawing from life, Anderle works only from his own and others' pohotographs, and from reproductions of Old Master works.

Source: Bulletin/News, July-August, 1986.