Detective wall / thinking fabric
shows thinking as a network. Drawings, texts and images are connected by threads and form an open structure of associations, tensions and possible meanings.
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Work description
untitled (Detective Wall / Thinking Fabric)
Mixed media, drawing, threads, pins, found objects
This work is designed as an open field of thought.
Drawings, sketches, texts, images and objects are connected to each other by colored threads. The connections do not follow a linear narrative, but rather form a network of associations, repetitions and breaks.
The wall functions like externalized thinking:
Ideas do not arise in isolation, but rather in relation to one another.
The threads do not mark clear causes, but rather tensions, transitions and hypotheses.
There is no fixed beginning and no destination.
Viewers are invited to create their own paths through the structure – to assume, reject and re-establish connections.
The work intentionally remains unfinishable.
It shows thinking not as a result but as an ongoing process.
Context/Inspiration
The work is inspired by the exhibition of Kazuko Miyamoto (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2025) as well as the visual metaphor of the detective board from the film A Beautiful Mind.
While Miyamoto makes space, body and movement visible with lines and threads, this work takes the principle of networking to the level of thinking and remembering.
The detective board does not serve as a narrative, but as a structure: knowledge is created by connecting - not by arranging.