“Dinge in die Welt finden” – an experiment as scenic installation

My meaning of life is: get up in the morning to find a way to continue the experiment! My life experiment is the artistic work that explains the world to me.
I encounter the world with my everyday materials. I examine the worn clothes for their traces of life; the skins that clothe us. These clothes are made of threads; many threads become a fabric.

Since humans are not thrown into the world by accident, but are born by humans into a pre-existing human world, we are like threads that are beaten into a pre-existing pattern, altering the fabric as they in turn uniquely afflict all threads of life with which they come into contact within the fabric. (bring about a condition in a being). Once the threads are spun to completion, they again yield clearly recognizable patterns, or can be told as life stories. (Hannah Arendt)

The everyday materials I use can also be wallpaper onto which I sew drawings with a sewing machine. Sometimes I combine both the sculptures and the sewing drawings with photography; especially analog b/w photography. My collage technique gives the world of thought the space to look behind the visible, which is perhaps only the ‘normal of the everyday’, after all. The observations of the conditions of life, of the ‘self-exploration’ are connected with the metaphor of the thread of life, which wants to hold together and reflect human life.
Carola Willbrand, March 2015

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