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(I would like three slices of the rainsausage and nine slices of bow cheese)For the work Regenwurst and Bogenkäse, the undersides of sausage, cheese and cookie packaging serve as a template for printing fabrics. The printing process is similar to drawing a picture, the presentation is similar to the process of wrapping goods at the …

fünf hoch fünf (five to five)Our tent had the colour …, so people often start to tell stories when they see the belt bags made of DDR-tent fabrics. The colours and fabrics bring back memories that come back to us on the streets. All over the country a story is remembered, told and carried on.

planschen (splash) Dive into the decorated water and divide it between them. „… The immediate necessities are more closely related to human beings.surrounds his being with a narrow periphery. The superfluous overflows, i.e. it continues to flow away from its starting point, and by holding on to this starting point, it lays around the area …

Untersetze Ellbogen (support elbow)Worn in public spaces, these garments are always an occasion for conversations about the numerous iron-on bead pictures of children and grandchildren. But also about surfaces and their contents, which should not only be replaced but also protected.

Rückenbeutel (Backpouch) Our tent had the colour …, so people often start to tell stories when they see the back bags made of DDR-tent fabrics. The colours and fabrics bring back memories that come back to us on the streets. Distributed all over the country, a story is remembered, told and carried on.

Compaction of lightly packed now easily fragileeasy to get and easy to discard.Collecting these filled moments creates highlights of living spaces.Between them, analogies that I record, examine and further explore.

Die Relevanz des Firlefanz (The relevance of frippery) What’s “frippery”? The work asks what role the “unnecessary things” actually play and illustrates the “invisible” and seemingly “incidental” that clothing is made of through associative installations.

Irgendwas mit Perle, denn Perle ist so ein schönes Wort (Something with pearl, because pearl is such a nice word) The garments, like the pearl, are made of layers. One is built around the other and the next, wrapped, covered and reshaped. Individual elements such as the collar, lapel, pocket pouch or belt loops are …

Annäherungsversuche und Berührungsängste (Approaches and fear of contact) I drove to relatives and friends in the former GDR, my home country. To those in whose apartments I still suspected remaining stocks of GDR clothing.One last photo of the clothes on the body of the owner. Then I took them with me to change and complete …