DR. MARK BENECKE: WGT Diary 2022 (32/60) - Hugs for money? Nick Cave? Fuck? (1)

DR. MARK BENECKE: WGT Diary 2022 (32/60) – Hugs for money? Nick Cave? Fuck? (1)

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Snack time between the events. Opposite Denise from Schnittmuskel, whom you already know from yesterday, has taken a seat. She’s getting married, but not in a techno-destroyed look. Why?” Denise: “Because we want to rebel and get married in white.” Mark: “Could it also be because of your tattoos, which you like to stand out as the strongest contrast possible with the white dress?” Denise: “Also!” (laughs) Mark: “Sitting across from you is a professor of astrophysics who spent his youth sewing. What kind of feelings does that evoke in you?” Denise: “I’m happy about that! After all, I sew, so I could be an astrophysics professor, too!” Mark: “Philip, do you see a connection there?” Philip: “Yes, why not, anything is possible. It’s 2022!” Mark: “So did you do a lot of brooding and thinking while you were sewing, or just focused on sewing and not letting your mind wander?” Philip: “Sewing is very meditative, the seam always has to be very straight.” Mark: “So you can let your mind wander?” Philip: “Like painting, you make an effort to make sure you color an area well and then you don’t think much about anything else.” Mark: “So when you were a teenager and a kid, when you liked to sew, were you already interested in elementary particles and things like that?” Philip: “Not at the same time, but maybe in parallel. Independently of each other.” Mark: “What influenced you? Science fiction novels? Or something else entirely?” Philip: “No, but just to know where we come from, why we’re so small, what’s out there. To understand that a little bit. That’s basically my Goth part. So the philosophical approach.” (Text & Photos: Mark Benecke)