Regina Frank, The Artist is Present
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Berlin, January 27/28, 1996

It is 7:10 in the morning and after working the whole night I am a bit tired.

4. You asked me to give you an idea about fromer work and about future projects?

I did put up an image of Sans Souci an older piece which is ad-dressing history that I let come close to my skin. The front material is photosensitized linnen, the back is cotton embroidered with gold thread and pearls.
Assuming all those different identities as artist, I continuously develop further thoughts about presence, presentation and representation in it's ways that it links or touches issues that come close to my skin. Creating these different ad-dresses I slip into another house/personality/identity, where each passage through my body and dress can represent different ideas. Each material I connect with, teaches me its own language, tells me it's own story. Silk narrates about transition, whispers metamorphosis or detachment, wool murmurs about warmth, nature, earth, protection, enclosure. Cotton deduces blooming and aging, ripeness and maturity and vulnerability, linen suffers from its roots, its strength and endurance. The more further I move into something that is elegantly called the "global village" I ask, is the original idea of home such an antiquated one in the age of high tech? Who will actually live in this "Global Village" that everybody is talking about? I love to watch flowers and trees grow and how about this for a change, grow inside through a lot of letters and leaves, that are going to collect a lot more sun or light and produce more air to breath. The sun is rising outside and most windows have grown little icy flowers on the windows. I guess I am going to take a little walk now. Fortsetzung folgt...to be continued tomorrow