Tailors for made-to-measure clothing in earlier times still
came to their customers on foot or by horse-drawn carriage, took measurements
on the spot and made wonderful dresses and lingerie from fine fabrics, then
delivered them with their panniers, a backpack on a fixed frame. They used
especially high-quality fabrics, which also liked to include floral patterns.
My grandfather fed his family of eight children this way.
Today I am often reminded of him when I walk through fields
and see flowers that would make his clothing so unique even today. I slip into
his role myself and am even allowed to be a child once again. An ice cream to
lick and this wonderful flower in the luggage on the way to a beautiful woman,
what a summer day.
The special feature of this purely naturalistic photo is to
depict a pannier wearer and at the same time focus on the flower, a daisy, but
without photographing a real person. The femininity of the fashion theme is
emphasized by the delicacy of the color. It is clear to see what a light
delicate flower is in the luggage and its motif will soon envelop a wonderful
woman in noble fabric. In my photo only pure nature is depicted, no real human
being strays into the picture. Through the contours I feel the body of the
child, the ice and the pannier, and as the most important, of course, the daisy
in its delicacy.
To find myself in events of my ancestor, to feel them
through imagination while seeing and to capture the special moment, not painted
from memory, but photographed to be experienced in the present time, that
inspires me and represents numerous works of my artistic creation.