This work consists of two assemblages arranged on a large Abaca textile acquired in Lucban, Philippines. A selection of personal and found objects is placed within a wooden box: maritime tools belonging to the artist’s late father, archival documents, German and Philippine passports, and various objects collected in Lucban. The assemblages bring together materials associated with labor, mobility, inheritance, and displacement, forming a layered constellation of personal and transgenerational histories.

Titled Aufräumen—a German term meaning both to put things in order and to come to an understanding—the work reflects a process that moves between past, present, and future. While formally related to assemblage practices, the act of arranging the objects was experienced by the artist less as a compositional strategy than as a ritualized process of orientation and transformation. Conceived as a free and ongoing body of work, Aufräumen marks the beginning of a series that will be further developed through continued research into material, memory, and ritual practice.