The inspiring place of Yatoo Art House Residency brought me to a new
series of photos, embroidered photos and a performance about life and
death.
Order and Chaos
The wild people of the mountain emerge in the misty woods. They remind
us of moments when we see all kinds of figures and creatures in nature
while walking through dawn or having the magic view of a child.
Although we are nature, we feel sometimes nature is something outside
of ourselves, alienated we search for contact and fear it. With the
wild people of the mountain I want to refer to our common energy and
our affiliation, our connaturality with nature. It is an adult way of
playing old games of constructing and making objects alive. Like the
human being at border of conciousness. The first figures they made
where just stones they found who had a special attraction to them.
The wild people are nature, they show the insideof the surrounding
cedar-trees. They have the shape of humans, but nevertheless they are
not. They are somewhat in between --- in our imagination, our
projections, our emotions related to spirits of nature.
This point of contact allows us to sit on a fence between rationality
and the space and time of magical, mystical or spiritual meanings.
Tenderness and Power
A series of spider web photos shows a weavin of tenderness an power, in structure and colors.
Human nature "being" (Performance 20.10.2012)
We are sown, we grow, we flourish, get fruits, get old, vanish and die.
I would like to remember that I am carrying nature all the time with
me. The felt seperation to nature is a delusion. We feel it because of
our strong control an potential of destroying other nature. So I came
to my performance. One of our main evolutionary steps was to dress
ourselves. We are protected, differentiated to animals, look different
and distinguish also in culture and rang. I would like to turn this and
transfer it to some roots. They become other kind of beings. Our
thinking and feeling simulates all of a sudden a being with feelings
and objects of our projection. After one year, 20th of October 2013, a
"grave" will be opened and documented what nature did: makes them
vanish, makes them change? Like what we humans do on and in earth.
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