kolkhofpetra@aol.com Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
This mini quilt is inspired by the book „Extremely loud and incredibly close“ by Jonathan Safran Foer (2005) The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. After his father died on 9/11, Oskar discovers a key in an envelope labeled with ‚Black‘, that belonged to his father. Oskar starts an adventurous search for the matching lock all over the city of New York. As a highflier he’s fascinated by numbers, (e.g. how many addresses exist in NY with the name ‚Black‘ or by the term googolplex which describes an incredible large number). Therefore I incorporated a couple of numbers into the abstract city map. Besides the search for the key, there is also the story of Oskar’s grandparents, who are traumatized by World War II and their escape from Dresden in Germany to New York. The two negative quilted hands symbolize their story.
