Barbara Beisinghoff came to WSW in 2009 from Darmstadt, Germany to produce The Angel Is My Watermark, inspired by Henry Miller’s short story same title. Influenced by Miller’s story since she began her work with watermarking in 1996.

“My art makes relationships or interfaces visible between inside and outside, surface and depth and between the disparate.”  Beisinghoff has carried out communicative art projects, star tents made of perforated copper over paths and deeply etched reliefs on which children have immortalized themselves. Scooped words made from paper fibres have been couched on tree trunks (PoeTree and Enchanted Forest 2016). She has grown flax and documented growth and processing processes in artist’s books.

In fall 2016, Barbara was the artist-in-residence at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She collaborated with students and faculty from German Studies, Media Studies, Art History and Biology. The students worked on artists’ books projects, learned to pull shaped paper, and visited the WSW studios.

She continues to work in her studio in Germany.