Vanessa Hatzky | Switzerland
The red-haired girl has a vivid imagination. Also to the old woman, who she frequently sees wandering through the streets, she ascribes a lot of oddities. This is why she gets more and more scared of the water-woman, how she always calls her.
But one day she explores that also the weird water-woman is an enthusiastic storyteller and so the relation between the two changes its character over the time, just as water does.
Where spinning thoughts and inventing stories can provoke fears on one side, it can also open new spaces and bring people together on the other.
As a child, I was terrified of water, so that even washing became a drama. I had to invent my own water, so I spent whole days in the living room between indoor palms and swam on blue towels. In something cold, dangerous and obscure I discovered a beautiful playfulness. Through my invented water the real water lost its fright.