Die Schatz Häuser (The Treasure Houses)
In August of 2015 I continued creating palimpsests in Berlin using ephemera, material and paper found in the city of Berlin. I constructed the series using the connecting thread of a particular series of dreams. Over a period of four years, each dream seemed connected to the other, and clearly were parts of a narrative, but they did not occur in chronological order. This haphazard way of creating a tale seems a fitting accompaniment to this kind of work.
The surreal quality of dreams and the nonlinear logic of the story lends itself to the kaleidoscopic fragments of these palimpsests. In many cases there are further bits of information hidden under the obscuring pieces of white paper. As with all bits of archaeology we stumble upon, the story is halfway lost: fragmentary. We only can know a part of the story. The rest is up to the viewer to fill in the blanks with their own sense of what the story could be about.
The series is half a way to express these luminous dreams and half a way to encourage the viewer to construct their own dreams.
The surreal quality of dreams and the nonlinear logic of the story lends itself to the kaleidoscopic fragments of these palimpsests. In many cases there are further bits of information hidden under the obscuring pieces of white paper. As with all bits of archaeology we stumble upon, the story is halfway lost: fragmentary. We only can know a part of the story. The rest is up to the viewer to fill in the blanks with their own sense of what the story could be about.
The series is half a way to express these luminous dreams and half a way to encourage the viewer to construct their own dreams.