Katharina Meldner

Katharina Meldner

In the movie the ants represent lines and dots of a drawing. In my drawings they are present through my following their traces with the pen. In a single shot of 29 minutes (full length original) the movie shows the emergence and disappearance of the writing now in an unstable, and continuously changing configuration of a group of ants: On a piece of paper I wrote the word now with sugared water which became invisible after drying like sympathetic ink. I put the paper between two highly frequented on-ramps of the Berlin highway. The ants that came and discovered the invisible sugar crystals were forming the word now in a highly unstable form. During this process a lot of forms and possible wordings emerge, only twice one can read the word now before it disappeares immediately.