This work represents the love between M* and me, two people of different skin color, who both grew up in completely different cultural backgrounds, have different family histories, speak a different mother tongue and are very different in character.

M* has frizzy, dark brown hair and the color of his skin is “black”. I have fine, blonde hair and the color of my skin is “white”. M* grew up in Guadeloupe and comes from a family of Arawak (natives of the Antilles) and of slaves kidnapped from Africa. I grew up under the dictatorship of the former GDR and later in Switzerland and come from a family of Germans and Czechs. M* speaks Creole and French, I speak German, English and a little bit of French.

“Different”. But we are just two individuals who have feelings, like every other human being in this world. We suffer, we cry, we feel joy, we laugh. At the same time we are connected to each other by a strong energy deep inside of us. In this energy of love, our differences in the form of a conflictual element become less and less important.

Love works like a strong attraction between the two of us and wants us to connect, to create harmony. When we chafe at each other occasionally, it lets us find common ground over and over again.

In this connection there is a force, an energy, in which lies a great tenderness and which pulsates at the same time. It gives us wings. It causes us to open up an abundance of new perspectives, new connections and combinations, precisely on the basis of our differences. We grow together, inspire each other, create together.