I was surprised that is was allowed to take pictures inside the exhibition. Many photographers – equipped with tripods and other gimmics – took pictures of Richter's works. Being annoyed by this, I left my camera bouncing off my hips at first, looking – almost not getting enough – at the pictures and glass objects. And then an impulse hit me, to somehow leave my inner self, to look thru my camera from very far and put it on manual and out of focus. All of the sudden I was fascinated by these abstract atmospheric and accidential compositions within the rooms, with all those spectators in the forefront and Richter's works in the background. All this melted into a wunderful new arrangement.
On August 8, 2012 I had a personal phonecall with Gerhard Richter and he gave me the permission to freely use my blurred photographs of his Berlin Exhibition (he told me a.o. "Well, Mrs. Dorn, why don't you just do what you feel like, this is your art, these are your pictures. You have my blessing, I wish you lots of success!"). For the rest of the day, I was kind of shaky.
I thank you very much for everything, dearest Mr. Richter – "you made my day!"
