All my Treasures

I don’t posses much. I moved so many times all over the world and never carried much. Everything we moved, we moved in suitcases. A lot of things had to stay, got lost or are buried in boxes in someone’s cellar.
There are only a few treasures that are valuable to me, and I know I can only keep those peaces that fit into a suitcase.

I love this postcard. I have it for a very long time. It always meant Heimat to me, the first years when I lived in Berlin and it still does. Even I am not from Switzerland, but I am from Bavaria and I grew up next to the mountains. Now I live close to the mountains again. Tiny mountains though. Compared to the Alps. The funny thing is, I didn’t get the joke for quite a time and when I realized it, I liked it even more. For those who don’t get it either: The mountain on the picture is the famous Matterhorn.

My husband brought these stones from Dyer Island, an Island where penguins live and bread under observation and protection of the nature conservation. No one is allowed to go there, but our friend Lauren is a Penguin Forscher and she took him one day. These stones are completely smooth, polished by penguin feet and asses for years.

This is a drawing of myself (not very flattering) by great artist Martin Kippenberger. He made it one night at the Paris Bar. My friend A. studied with him and every time he came to Berlin, he came to see Kippenberger. A. stayed at my place and therfore he took me to the Paris Bar oder Exil, where he met with K. The evenings where exciting but became quite ugly almost every time, when everybody was very drunk and K. ended up insulting people. Usually there were a lot of people around him. The night he made that drawing it was only us and B.
K. also made a drawing of B. and when he handed it over to him, B. couldn’t believe it and asked: Is this for me? Can I keep it?” As an answer K. took the picture, crumpled it into a ball, threw it away and said: “You Galeristen, all you think about is money”. B. immediately got on his knees and crouched under the table to get his picture.
I am still pondering on the meaning of the sentence he wrote on my drawing: “Frauen können weil sie wissen gut sein.” Women can be good because they know.

I will update my treasures on a regular basis on a specific my treasure site that you will find under pages on the sidebar.