Silvia Maria Spiess is an artist and designs paper light objects. I have known her for some time through friends and when I visualised the idea of the bus, I immediately thought of Silvia Maria! 

We arranged to meet in September '21 in Kreuzberg at her shop (https://www.silvia-maria-spiess.de/) and quickly got down to business. 

I really liked her works and exhibition objects "STREET GIFTS": springs of old mattresses with paper to light objects and my wish to Silvia was quickly formulated clearly! 

Here is Silvia Maria's description of her art:

STREET GIFTS
"The recyclable material paper in its various forms and sustainability as a leitmotif for lifestyle and artistic work have always been central aspects of my art.
Inspired by "trash art", in which waste is decontextualised and becomes a material for art, I use the springs of discarded mattresses in my new STREET GIFTS light object collection - a "gift from the street", so to speak.

I redesign these supposedly worthless legacies of the affluent society and integrate them into the light objects of the STREET GIFTS series, picking up on the theme of rust again, as I did in my LIGHT METALL series (2019). In the artistic process, I use specially produced paper and work out the individual feathers in such a way that they become the central design element. The materials used in my objects consistently follow the leitmotif of sustainability.

The finished works are reminiscent of honeycombs due to the techniques used and therefore already have the focus on sustainability in their design."

Below are a few impressions of this process.