Ever since the age of 16, I have been dancing at my very own pace - that of sudden loss of heartbeat. At first, the fainting spells were bearable, spaced with long intervals of incidence, enabling me to lead a rather normal life. It was not until my mid-twenties that the frequency increased dramatically, at times confining me to the realm of my apartment for days and sometimes weeks, keeping me isolated from the rest of the world.

A lost beat is never recovered, just as energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The Heart was failing - and in doing so, it was rendering me terribly offbeat in the midst of what seemed to be the height of my life.  As a heart declines, its body and soul are soon destined to follow, due to the lack of that vanished momentum. Therefore, it was not so much the limitations of having a congenital heart disease that triggered the initiation of this project. Therefore, it was not so much the limitations of having a congenital heart disease that triggered the initiation of this project. It was the urge to know what happens in the space between the delayed heartbeats, in the silent darkness of free-falling.

The desperate need to address those dense black holes of my mental universe, that seemed to be filled with tangible context in the eyes of any other beholder. I wanted to explore if I could bridge the gap between my conscious self and the echoes of the quilted artificial world provided by my unconscious mind upon every awakening. Ultimately, I was driven by wanting to create a stable point of departure in my quest to figure out where I would go from here, both privately as a person and professionally as a designer.