Merlin Klein, Haartagebuch/ Archiv, Die tägliche Rausur,

HAIR DIARY


I shave my head every day.
Since September 2018, I keep an archive, a diary in this way. Each experienced day I try to catch so, to point my finger on it, to mark, to be aware of what happens and what happened. Like when I stand by the sea and try to count waves. The freshly shaved hair goes into a box labeled with the date I wore the hair and some information about the day.

I don’t know when I will finish this time-based work. I know I can stop right now. A jewelry idea turned into a piece of work, something I’ve been working on consistently for several years now. It’s already over 1500 doilies. In 1500 days, I have only forgotten to shave my hair 1 time. Just like that. I got up in the morning and somehow I had something to do, then unexpectedly strangers came, my rhythm was disturbed and I was inattentive. That’s when I forgot. I think it’s a good cut so far anyway.


A little story:

I had a conversation with a friend of my grandma and mother.
She asked if what I was doing was just out of spite,
I said no, in that case it was rebellion.
She said that yes, they had tried rebellion in the past.
She would have come to the conclusion that there is no point in rebelling.
She went on to ask if I wouldn’t rather stop doing that and live a regular life, instead of going to demos all the time for no reason, because in the end you’ll die becurse of this, she said to me.

I replied:
I would rather die at the next demo than end up like her.
The conversation died away.