Handmade Felt

For quite a long time, I was missing the warmth and softness within my drawings. I always felt, that my drawings where cold and sterile on white paper. I yearned for a haptical base and never had a clue to how this could possibly become reality...when one day I read about a mongolian technique of felting. I visited a few exhibitions in Hamburg, in which I became fascinated by the fact, that this technique left the contures of an ornament untouched, while embedding motifs into a felted base. Another fascinating aspect of this being, that felt is the  primary prehistoric form of manmade textile. In two years of experimenting and hands-on work, I learned this mongolian felting technique in order to get the results, that I was in search of: Being able to embed my drawings into a haptical base. The „Felt-Pieces“ were born. I was fascinated by the fact, that I was using the traditional material felt, which was culturally established as a medium to warm, isolate and decorate- and put it to use as a haptical canvas of an art-form. The motifs of my felted pieces confronting the viewer with perverted and subversive contents, that break with the tradition of the usages of felt.