Photo Laura Johanna König
I am a
crafter.
I like to get in contact with
materials, whether it’s the yarn that runs through my fingers or the lines of
code I
shift on my computer screen. It is not about power nor the
concept of creation – but about the possibility of stepping into dialogue with
my environment.
I must have chosen textiles because it is so obvious to my human body; the one material that we never loose contact to, the most devoted friends of all.
Having been working as a bespoke tailor and studying architecture and textiles, I have learned a lot about the functionalities and construction of the environments we build to have filled by our bodies. But - especially in the last two years - I saw the materials of our environment shifting and I had to fear, that the set of tools I had at hand were not suited anymore for handling and cultivating our new surroundings.
My current work is targeting this exact spot; the fear of the non-human and those without a body as well as the translation between the physical and the virtual…
I must have chosen textiles because it is so obvious to my human body; the one material that we never loose contact to, the most devoted friends of all.
Having been working as a bespoke tailor and studying architecture and textiles, I have learned a lot about the functionalities and construction of the environments we build to have filled by our bodies. But - especially in the last two years - I saw the materials of our environment shifting and I had to fear, that the set of tools I had at hand were not suited anymore for handling and cultivating our new surroundings.
My current work is targeting this exact spot; the fear of the non-human and those without a body as well as the translation between the physical and the virtual…