“Resonant Matter” explores how water functions as mnemonic device for remembering human and nature relationships.

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For two years, I have been working with alternative lithography that utilizes discarded drinking cans to turn them into printable surfaces to capture what lingers on the surfaces of different water bodies. I have since termed my approach sea-lithography as I work with the naturally occurring oil-based residues on water’s surface as drawing materials. 

 

This project started in the Middle East, capturing the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red and the Dead Sea and has since moved to South Korea to work with the Yellow Sea. In an effort to return to Germany from these journeys, I am traveling through the Balkans to explore waterways and invite locals into this practice through participatory workshops during which I teach the techniques and hope to get into contact with local artists and residents for fruitful discussions on the environment and our relation to it as human beings.

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This journey will take me from Corfu via Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia to Hungary over the course of 6 weeks in November/December 2025. 

 

The project’s approach is rather simple. Together with participants, I will collect discarded cans, prepare them as printing plates, submerge them in water, and later print what the river has left behind. Beneath this gesture of collecting and composing waterways lies an attentive pausing that invites participants to notice what flows through us; what marks us; what we leave in return. I look to explore how this practice reflects on issues pertinent to people who are navigating the shifting currents of social change and environmental anxiety across the region and beyond in recent years.

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I will be documenting the journey in the chapters below for you to follow along.