Artist’s sketchbook blog in the form of a visual journal sorted by month.
After a long period of celibacy I had taken up the search for a life partner for the first time, an approach that let me see many connections in a clearer light. But I was more in love with the feeling of starting over than any specific person.
Read MoreOne month after my return from Gran Canaria, I moved house to permanently relocate to the center of Leipzig – an intention would turn out to be misguided, but at the time I was blissfully unaware about the dark side of my new life.
Read MoreI came back from my artist residency in Gran Canaria full of inspiration. So I threw myself back into my life in Leipzig, where I found a new creative community filled with sensitive women who would become some of my best friends in the coming years.
Read MoreMy art residency led me to the island of Gran Canaria. After a period of darkness, the island of eternal spring presented itself like an exciting summer fantasy, only enhanced by the creepy undertones of the local cave culture and spiky vegetation.
Read MoreBetween starting to learn Salsa and Bachata, doing a photoshoot for my visual identity, and looking for a new apartment, June was a full month in which I tried to create the foundation for a new, more connected way of living my life, despite the traces of my illness that still lingered.
Read MoreAfter completing my in-patient treatment for depression, I had to learn a new way of relating to my life in Leipzig, my home, communities, and work. Creating art took second place to recovering from fatigue in this phase of my life.
Read MoreIn January I had to face the fact that I was struggling with major depression and made the choice to put myself in the hospital, which was one of the harder decisions of my life. I left the clinic mid-March, after a difficult but ultimately neccessary process.
Read MoreThings started slipping away as the year came to an end. I found myself anxious and crying frequently without knowing why, and neither exercise nor company brought me relief.
Read MoreThe days got darker and the walls drew closer as my self-imposed social isolation intensified, but on the other side of that loneliness was also an intense creative force I was determined to put to use.
Read MoreIn the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin (“women grow things in the darkness”) I spent the witch month of October in a spiritual and artistic isolation that was only punctured by an esoteric bookclub and frequent visits to upscale workout classes.
Read MoreSeptember was about immersing myself in the parks surrounding my home. This connection to myself and nature helped envisioning the positive changes and expansion I wanted to bring about in my life and art.
Read MoreMy trip to the Ostsee at the beginning of the month was a wonderful and solitary experience that helped me heal from my recent breakup. I realized I also had outgrown a shared workspace I had been part of for many years, and so I resumed to set up my art studio at home instead.
Read MoreIn Istanbul hab ich zum ersten Mal Wrongfidence als Thema eines Workshop verpackt und mit den Teilnehmer:innen der CoCreate-Workshopwoche der Kulturplattform Maviblau zusammen drei Stunden lang im Istanbuler Stadtteil Cihangir gezeichnet.
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