Prelude - Frame.
There is something comforting about a frame. To frame something is to give it parameters, to give it edges, to contain any subject and...
How is a place created by the architecture, history, past residents, and ecological community? Can I say I lived somewhere when my door unlocked with a piece of re-programmable plastic? How does learning the history of a place leave a mark on you? These are some of the questions I pondered while in residence in Wedding/Gesundbrunnen, Berlin-Mitte. Here you will find stories and a mind map from my field research while living on Osloer Straße in Berlin, Germany.
While I have done my best to corroberate information and check facts, please note that these are works of creative writing based on informal sources.
Completed as part of a Directed Study while attending SFU Contemporary Art Field School Berlin, 2022.
- Teresa Donck-Matlock