lie down with me

katharinajej is lying on a white blanket on the sidewalk in the middle of the small town. A message is embroidered on the blanket in large black letters: Lie down with me. katharinajej is waiting for passers-by who want to have an encounter - lying down together, resting, perceiving, being, Doing nothing, on the ground, in public.

I leave the vertical and arrive in the horizontal. The ground carries me. My thoughts and feelings are changing. My nervous system calms. I feel more fragile and vulnerable, exposed to the public. Exposed to the public. From down here I have a different perspective - on passers-by, bicycles, cars, houses, dogs. I am lying where passers-by usually walk. But not alone. An older woman is lying next to me. Our bodies touch. We talk, sometimes we are silent, while the city life goes on around us.