Kaulsdorf is the first place I lived when I moved to Berlin in September 2009. It’s a small village outside the city. There are two lakes near my old home and I used to regularly go for long walks around them. My four months in Kaulsdorf were an amazing time for me. I often joke that I didn’t really come alive until I was 26 – the time that I moved to Kaulsdorf. A five and a half year relationship was dying a slow and painful death but at the same time I was just discovering what the world had to offer outside of Australia, finding my independence and exploring my creativity. I lived in a single room in an attic. When it got colder the landlord would leave coal outside my door everyday to light the fire. It was there that I saw real snow for the first time (apart from once when I was a baby apparently). My sister recently sent over some of my Polaroids I’d had in storage and I found these amongst them. They were taken around the lakes and Kaulsdorf fields when Autumn was starting to show itself. I remember the air had a beautiful cold bite to it.
