Kein Ort Nirgends (2017)

The title, which translates from German as No Place Nowhere, introduces a series of landscape portraits of my home in Germany. These fields and irregular forests are not arranged for productive or economic efficiency. It is this landscape that has shaped me.

The process of making this rug took two years. It is made from wool originally produced for carpets in the 1960s—a material whose color palette evokes a specific era, much like the faded tones of an old photograph. Revisiting a landscape—materializing it without standing before it—confirms that this visual archive in my memory is the closest thing I have to a sense of belonging.