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Why is she waiting for Thulani?
Everything needs a name to call it. Some day we invited a friend for dinner, who was running late in a funny way – he was on the road, but kept getting stuck here and there and there and here. That created a strange mood of waiting in which I completed tasks that had been left undone, finalising things that I hadn’t been able to complete before.
Waiting for Thulani brought out a certain energy that stimulated thinking and even creativity. All without pressure, because suddenly a window of time opened up that brought about a kind of calm – even if the salmon became too dry. Thulani, who came after all (because he wasn´t called Godot), explained that his name actually means: ‘be peaceful, be quiet’. Yes, that is what characterises the basic mood of my work and what is worth waiting for.
Stefanie Raasch (*1981 in Stralsund) lives and works as an artist in Berlin.
Among other things, she works with the Japanese marbling technique Suminagashi and combines the visual with the poetic.
Part of her artistic work is to digitally alter the prints. The results, both as a print of the original print and the digitally modified works, can be combined well with the haiku she has written and complement each other. The visual – previously thought – and the written – previously seen – can thus exchange their form and create new images or thoughts when viewed and/or read.
