Triggered: Moritz Jekat

Sculpture I – Silk Elements or the feeling of morphing into something new, Moritz Jekat

By Moritz Jekat

I was photographing my newly formed little family a lot for my project „Non ya“ during early 2018 and I was trying to capture a feeling I had at that time: a feeling of balancing something that you love that feels like it’s part of you already but it isn’t, yet. A feeling of stress, fragility, intimacy, love, and pure normality - a feeling of morphing into something new. „Non ya“ is a personal narrative about multinational family, creating a home, forming family and the process of migration. 

For that reason I was playing around with everyday objects from our household, which were more or less personal, but definitely connected to us if only by being used and touched by us. Those objects had already become a part of us, our home, and (what we called) our family. After a while I ended up with that lil sculpture you see in the image, which kept falling over. I had to rearrange it several times, balance it right, tape it to the table, and tape the parts of it together to keep it from collapsing. I took the picture in the moment right before it was about to collapse again. That was it. That was the feeling I was trying to capture.