Born in Leipzig, a trading and industrial boomtown before WW2 and a pretty run-down place during the GDR times, I was raised in a surrounding best described as “peaceful, sleeping, ready to be reactivated”. After the reunification, this is happening at ridiculous speed: All those ruins and slowly rotting buildings of former glory are transformed into fancy apartments and co-working studios. Don’t get me wrong here – I embrace the change and value life over decaying buildings. Nevertheless, I feel space open for imagination is getting scarce.
Archinature is a mixed-media sculpture made from a load-bearing beam saved from a renovated former tapestry factory in Leipzig, incorporating a bonsai tree. It is an attempt to preserve past memories and fuse it with experiences of now, as well as balancing artificial habitats and nature as a totem to remind one of the everchanging cycles of Life.
Archinature Nr. 1, mixed-media, 85 x 30 x 20 cm, 2017 
full sculpture birds eye view 
detail shot mid sculpture 
detail shot down at pool