NOW WAS NEW ... my site-specific font installation on the facade of the social and entrance building of the Volkswerft Stralsund.

When exactly is NOW? It is a fleeting moment between the future that is happening and the past that has happened. The now are constantly new moments in which our future continually lies before us. 

The question about the future of the Stralsund Volkswerft is the question about future economic forms and thus about sustainable models of production and trade. Given the need to change our global structures in order to act sensibly with our resources, these are also the tasks of the present time. 

The shipyard and its history symbolize these essential questions. As an artist and the daughter of a shipyard worker, I open them lyrically, placed on the outer facade in the urban space and therefore communal.

The stairwell and the glass facade are symbols of the in-between. To fit into the existing architecture, I use the words NOW – WAS – NEW. Manifest, this lettering calls for our common future. 

This work was created for the statewide art show 2023 in MV “betwixt and between”.

word art, August 2023, Kreidefarbe, Volkswerft Stralsund