1972 – 2001

Cornelia Kneier was one of the participants in my first prison project, Gap[Lücke]. She was the loudest, the tallest, the reddest of the women who travelled to the preparatory seminar at Schwichteler Abbey. She was conspicuous in everything, whether she was laughing or despairing. Her gap belonged on a traffic island, the traffic lights should not be red or green for the photo, but orange for eternity.

I took her appearance and her being with me into the following project, I tried to capture them in her face, which I modelled on the figure of a larger-than-life processional Madonna. The four impressions in porcelain and terracotta bore the images that made up the Prison Clothes Collection.