Jamais vu

Although my decision to change my institute for my master‘s degree - from Fashion&Technology to textile | art | design - was a very conscious one, that alone was not enough. My way of doing things had to transform. Away from vestimental forms, towards something unknown. 

My skills, knowledge and previously learned techniques had to be recombined and rearranged in order to be able to expand my field of work in the direction of pictorial work. This inner transformation process of thinking and acting is to be illustrated by this work. „Jamais-vu" illustrates this inner transformation process of thinking and acting. 

The Jamais-vu-experience [ʒamɛˈvy] (French for never seen)
describes the opposite of the déjà vu experience. In this psychological
phenomenon, a person, circumstance, or place - although actually familiar - is perceived as completely foreign or new.

Using a variant of the monoprint process, I printed my bachelor‘s portfolio on textile in an attempt to bring about the above phenomenon.  The prints on textile are characterized by a certain blurriness, similar to a memory that slowly begins to fade. The original graphic is sometimes more sometimes less recognizable. 

In the printing process, I found that although I always repeated the same steps as accurately as possible, each print is unique and cannot be reproduced exactly. Also the duration of the printing process (about 15 hours) are emblematic of the fact that processes take their time - more than one sometimes assumes or perhaps wishes.

The original porfolio with 68 pages was transferred to the appropriate number of double pages in brochure printing and bound by hand using Coptic binding (open thread binding). The materials used, such as acrylic paint, cotton fabric and printing utensils were taken from my stock. Only the printing plate had to be purchased new.