Nothing happens by accident in her art. For Carina Lößl-Lamboy, 23, the concept behind it is important: “The time distribution is usually 80 percent concept and 20 percent implementation,” she says. Most of the time she works with photography, but the medium can be anything that can realize her concept – whether with a camera, on the computer or with a tufting gun. “My art takes place in my head.”
Carina completed her training as a communication designer this year. In her thesis, she deals with relative poverty – a problem that has affected her for as long as she can remember. She chose black and white typography. “I wanted to portray the reality and feelings of people living in poverty as it is, in black and white.” With her work she made it into the top six works of her school.
A new discipline for Carina is tufting. Yarn is stitched into a fabric to make carpets. She tried out a tufting gun for the first time at an exhibition of the Crèmbach collective, in which she is involved. “I invited people to participate. In the end, people between the ages of 4 and 70 worked on the carpet,” she says.
Whatever art discipline she pursues, her work is often guided by her synesthesia. This means that she perceives stimuli as linked. “For me, for example, seven is green,” she explains. “That’s why colors are so important to me, because I feel in them too.” She can express this connection in art.
In connection with her synesthesia, she also had the idea of creating her own calendar. June has become one of her favorite months: “I associate June with yellow, green and pink and the awakening of the flowers.” Your model stands in a green dress with a curved pose in front of the light green background and represents a fresh blossom. In post-production, she intensifies the colors and takes some of the sharpness out. “The feelings are in the foreground, it doesn’t have to be that sharp for me,” she says.
She would like to sell the calendar she created during her training as the first of her works of art. So far, art has primarily been her passion. To be able to make a living out of it one day would be a dream. After completing her training, she now wants to try things out further so that she can “express her own soul” in various art disciplines, says Carina.