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Me & my Teddy Bear
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Me & my Teddy Bear

20.07.11

  08:40:00 pm, by   , 472 words  
Categories: Art, Collage

Me & my Teddy Bear


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This collage is autobiographical. It is the merging of two images I carry with me. The first is a picture of me naked at the age of 3 years or so, on a beach along the Baltic Sea: a blond (this will not last) boy who stands in front of his father’s camera. The other is my teddy bear who never left me, during or after the war, until - probably tired of his childish object or driven by a legitimate curiosity - I ripped it’s belly open to find only straw and I snatched the eyes.
I like this fusion, it came when I stuck a volcano cloud on an Amazon beetle and I was touched by the inability of these small "arms" as it is the memory I have of my state :impotence. Powerlessness over things, objects that are hostile or difficult to master, especially in the environment of a city in ruins and finally with some people, eg. my brother, who was five long years older than me and made me feel it brutally, before my distant mother , all devoted to her social life and before a father who played more Santa Claus than just a father.
And when I look at this collage, I am touched by this "Hilflosigkeit" (helplessness) -something of me as a little child is expressed in it,since that image resonates so strongly in me.

Ce collage est autobiographique. Il est la fusion de deux images que je porte en moi. La première est une photo de moi, nu, à l’âge de 3 ans environ, sur une plage au bord de la mer baltique : un petit garçon plutôt blond (cela ne va pas durer) qui se tient devant la caméra de son père. L’autre, c’est mon ours qui ne m'a jamais quitté, ni pendant, ni après la guerre, jusqu’à ce que – sans doute lassé par cet objet enfantin ou mû par une curiosité légitime – je l’éventre pour y trouver seulement de la paille et que je lui arrache les yeux.
Cette fusion me plaît, elle est venue quand j’ai collé un panache volcanique sur un coléoptère amazonien et que j’ai été touché par l’impuissance des petits « bras », car c’est le souvenir que j’ai de mon état : l’impuissance. Impuissance devant les choses, les objets qui se montrent hostiles ou difficiles à maîtriser, l’environnement si particulier d’une ville en ruines et enfin devant certains êtres, comme par ex. mon frère, qui avait 5 longues années de plus que moi et qui me le faisait sentir brutalement, devant ma mère si distante, toute à sa vie mondaine et devant un père qui jouait davantage au père Noël qu’au père tout court.
Et quand je regarde ce collage, je suis touché par cette « Hilflosigkeit » (état d’être sans défense) – quelque chose de moi petit s’y trouve exprimé, puisque cette image résonne si fort en moi.

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