No Simple Swimming2016-2017, 268 x 197 cm

Sep­tem­ber 12, 2016 to Sep­tem­ber 11, 2017

Art his­to­ry knows "ob­jets trou­vés" (found ob­jects) - this piece is made of "mots trou­vés" (found words). Dur­ing a whole year, on my dai­ly walks, I col­lect­ed one word per day which I found on dis­plays, ad­ver­tis­ing posters, sign posts or de­liv­ery-vans. The word at­tract­ed my at­ten­tion be­cause it res­onat­ed with some­thing I was re­flect­ing on dur­ing my walk, re­mind­ed me of a par­tic­u­lar oc­cur­rence, trig­gered as­so­ci­a­tions or sim­ply be­cause of its ty­pog­ra­phy or a par­tic­u­lar spelling. In al­lu­sion to em­broi­dered pic­tures or pil­lows which are al­so used to record more or less mean­ing­ful thoughts, I cross-stitched the words and sewed them to­geth­er in chrono­log­i­cal or­der in­to a gi­gan­tic ab­surd po­em, which some­times, by chance, nev­er­the­less makes sense.