Are self-sewn clothes more sustainable than the ones out of fast fashion stores? I love to design and sew my own clothes. When I am working at a new project, that's the one thing in my life where I forget time and space. It happens that I sit down at 5 pm and then stop... Continue Reading →
The True Materialist
We are a society of Materialists. A sentence most of us heard more often than once. Especially when you are living in the global north, there is a never ending pile of things one could need and want and buy and carry home in bags and receive in parcels. This lifestyle also shows in the... Continue Reading →
Barbara Branches – Update
ere is the promised update, when the little spring rebels-would start to show. The blossoms will open anyday now. I wrote down the story of Barbara Branches and thier meaning to me in an older post of mine: https://livingwithyourstuff.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/barbara-branches/
Watching Only Lovers Left Alive – Or: An Artistic Mindset
[MILD SPOILERS: About the Characters in the film and the set. Nothing about the plot (As if there is much plot in a Jarmusch film (which I truly appreciate))] This probably won’t be the last time I will write about the film “Only Lovers Left Alive” by Jim Jarmusch. It is my favourite movie and this is because, for me, it is a personal guide how I want to live and work as an artist...
Barbara Branches
In my family we follow the custom, that on December the 4th, we bring into our home a bouquet of Barbara Branches. These are branches cut off fruit-bearing trees like cherry trees or apple trees. It is one of my favourite traditions throughout the year and I want to tell you why...
From Stuff to Things
When Christoph first brought forward the proposal to sell a great part of our furniture, I was taken aback and refused this unimaginable thought. What should happen to all our stuff? In my head I saw a flat where everything is lying around on the naked floor. Stacks of T-shirts, books, clutter, in front of empty walls. But I love that he gave this impulse of change, like a rush of cold water hitting you unprepared and waking you up to the bones. I guess I really needed it in my life right now. Break up those old thoughts and those rusty brain clusters...