Colour Finds

Fragments of various coloured sheet material made of acrylic glass, legacies of unknown origin, lay oddly scattered within the garden soil. Instead of disposing of them, the author cleaned and saved them as found objects. In a playful activity, she then examined these colour finds and sorted them according to size and fit, then combined them in various configurations and printed the individual shapes on paper. The entire play ended with the colour fragments being combined in their found shapes to form new objects.

Oasen

A floor with the remains of an originally geometrically austere drawing that had long since turned into green, ugly-looking patches called for an ornamental intervention. Reflective slats on all the windows lifted the green from the floor and directed it onto the windows. This reflection drew the gaze away from the ruined floor and more towards its shades of green reflected on the windowpanes, making it appear like small oases. This simple act of shifting the focus made it possible to gain a new experience of the green.

And in this setting the ruined floor, flanked by bomb-damaged houses, loses its terrible ugliness and itself transforms into a kind of oases.

Schmuckader

A crumbling concrete surface, a relic from a past time, bears witness to decay. Colonised by mosses and lichens, nature would eventually reclaim it and consign it to oblivion. The author lined a crack that ran the entire length of the concrete surface with a chain; one made of red rod beads and the other a fine ball chain.

Despite their individual effects, both chains transform the ugly concrete by creating a connection between the vein they trace and the light they reflect.

“Time, perseverance and serenity bind aesthetic energies that flow into this crack, allowing the materials [of the chains] with their vibrant colours to give rise to a quiet poetry and a discreet glow that dissolves the barren starkness and irrelevance of the old concrete surface.” Reiner Nachtwey

ZwischenFall

The floor of a studio room used by the author was covered with concrete slabs, the joints of which were filled with all kinds of things that had fallen to the ground. The author used this material to create a floor work. What would normally be disposed of as rubbish was neatly sorted and put on display.