The natural materials I use have their own temporalities and life cycles, and I want to communicate this aliveness in my textiles. I produce vivid colors from plants and insects and play with contrast to enhance these colors. The felted works of the exhibition trail mix in A Publik Zürich enhance the painterly quality of the medium and speak about color as a material. During a residency at the Fondation FARB in the south of France, I had the chance to experiment with traditional natural dyes. I often have rough ideas for the shapes or motives in my artworks, but the conversation with the dyed wool opens up a whole new world, and I try to stay open to the unknown while making; let my body react to what the material offers. An essential part of the process is felting, one of the simplest and oldest ways to create textiles and a physical process requiring bodily strength to entangle loose fibers into a steady felt.