During a short residency in Worpswede, Germany, I became interested in the depiction of women’s emotional states and body postures in the paintings of Heinrich Vogeler, a representative figure for the history of the artistic commune established in the town. In response, I have created a living archive of five distinct, hand-drawn catalogues containing a selection of titles from his paintings of women. I placed color reproductions of these catalogues in a wooden box and asked the people present at the Sunday Market to randomly pick one catalogue from the collection. Based on their choice of catalogue and title, I embodied the specific pose for them for a couple of seconds. I performed this until there were no catalogues left in the box.

see also Paving as another way of being