Anna Siggelkow
Lotus Power II
https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de. 9th June 2017, 2:22 pm. Can this meadow become a forest?
When he stands on the balcony he sees trees and bushes. That has not always been the case. Before there was only one meadow. If he had a say, he wants that meadow back. Therefore he has sent letters to the Department of Nature Conservation and Landsca-
pe Management in which it says: ‘In the meantime, the slope already looks more like a forest than grassland.‘ He would like to know from the competent authority whether it will stop the scrub encroachment. The meadow is owned by a community of heirs
and has not been used for agricultural purposes for years, so it is growing. ‘I am afraid that the view into the valley will soon be blocked by a wild forest,‘ he expresses his concerns to the District Office.
2:23 pm. Gone into the vastness of the web.
Changing the medium never happens smoothly. The 80 g paper absorbs too much ink.
The pixels blur. Looks like a painting from a tourist spot. 01, gone.
Am I closer to it now?
Two trees.
Paradise?
Place of longing.
Press photo. Ink jet prints. Doubled.
I am searching for wilderness.
http://www.stoffbook.de.‘Light, tearproof, pastel green nylon fabric with a water repellent effect (lotus effect). The impinging water is shaped into balls and literally shaken off.‘ says the product description of the outdoor fabric.
The pastel green monochrome looks as natural as a glacier ice pastille.
I form a flat triangel out of it.
Is it really possible to measure space with a triangle? Who actually said that the univers is flat? Can you imagine that?
Geometric shapes haunt me.
1,2,3.
I take a handypic of the landscape.
Saved. Forgotten.
It lacks flow.
The gradient of Photoshop CC is striped. The algorithm does not manage the transition.
I use the Wiper Fingers tool. 500 times display. It takes forever.
The curves of the form stick to the polygonal.
Why can‘t I get there?
The middelpiece doesn`t allow it. The crystal shape is too large.
Do I know this form?
They do their dance of resurrection, but they don‘t come back.
Were they ever really here?
Water, fabric, mint green, 80g paper, geometric shapes, meadows.
The water washes the paper from underneath. The ink dissolves.
https://www.purewaters.de. “Lotus POWER is a highly effective and resource-conserving drinking water purification agent for the sustainable combating of germs, fungi, algae and Legionella.“
Lotus Power should clear the water afterwards.
Hi nature?
I step onto the balcony and look over the landscape.
Anna Siggelkow, born in 1981, is a German photographer and artist. During her Design studies, she focused on artistic photography and joined Mischa Kuball’s class at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. Her work blurs the lines between figuration and abstraction, pragmatism and accessory. Anna questions what’s important and what’s banal. Her work was exhibited in Cologne and throughout Germany. In 2018, she won the Life Framer Photography Award twice and was chosen for the Portfolio Walk 2018 (Deutsche Fotografische Akademie) at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany.