Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

Since her early childhood she is fascinated by the fact of gravitation. It's something she didn't want to understand for very long and still doesn't do so completely. She always loved dreams of flying; they were the best. She remembers that she kept on jumping from the heater in order to overcome gravity. With every crash to the ground she felt more and more anger and disappointment. She believed that she was doing it in a wrong manner. Her parents had to stop her. And years later, when she was about 8 or 9 years old, they still tried to explain her that it's impossible to shield yourself against gravity. If a car folds down a cliff, why not jump out of it in the last moment before the crash and just be fine! Along with the denial of gravity came a belief in inviolability in a bigger sense. She had a lot of crashes and was quite a crash kind anyway; She jumped, ran and climbed better than everybody else and always got away with just some scratches and bruises. On a sunny Saturday afternoon in 2003 an impulsive young girl knew that within a second everything was different. She broke all her ligament in her right knee and knew that she had not only lost her inviolableness but also the naive child she had been. And half a year later she picked up a camera and started to photography memories of movements and the struggle with gravity. But her nightly dreams of flying seemed to be lost forever.