A devastating episode of human history is embodied in this piece, which I created after visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time in 2023.
A single rock from the railway track that I found on site served as my inspiration. Utilizing the expressive quality of embroidery and leaning on its thousand-year old traditions, I created a visual story that can be perceived on different scales  – from the destruction of nations, religions, and entire communities, to personal histories. Stone is considered to be a strong, dense, and stable substance. It is formed through years of physical and organic forces that shape, change, and transform it over time.

Yet this stone falls apart into delicate individual threads, making it seem fragile and soft. From the density of the solid dark rock, gaps form in the middle, and intertwining threads split into single threads. Each thread is thin and almost invisible, yet it creates its own path and signifies a person’s life story.

These individual stories cross paths, connect and entangle with one another. From right to left, the stone seems to fall apart, symbolizing the horrors of the Holocaust and the Second World War. In the opposite direction, the singular threads gather and regroup back into a solid whole, depicting the courage of the survivors and the hope of building a better future.