"After the fall of the Wall, the city changed. During her daily strolls at dawn and dusk, when she felt that nobody looked, she caressed the poles of street-lamps, railings of benches, playground swings, corners of buildings, traffic light-stands..."   Iris Häussler

Upon entering the flat in Berlin, visitors were immersed into a domestic scene disrupted, as if converted into a workshop focused on a single minded activity... and then, seemingly, abandoned.

The apartment resembled an overflowing laundry storage. Thousands of fabric rags were stacked in big orderly piles. Each rag  had a  tag pinned to it. The tag was a copy of an entry in a ledger book noting what the rag had been used for such as cleaning a lamp pole, park bench, hand rail, writing down the street and the date of that stroll. Whatever the collector had chosen to give attention to her strolls,  she touched it with the rags, …over time creating a private archive of dust and dirt in her small attic apartment in Berlin Mitte. 

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