Zwei Autoren: Feldarbeiter – Hausarbeiter [Two Authors: Fieldworker – Houseworker]

The work Zwei Autoren: Feldarbeiter – Hausarbeiter is another joint work by Schindele and Gabriel. A vitrine with two red booklets. One of them has been stripped and obviously exposed to various weather conditions, the other one is neatly labeled (Edwin W. Moes/Gabriel), with traces of use, but in good condition.

Both notebooks were purchased in November 2017 as part of a triple pack. In the following month, Schindele brought one of these notebooks as a gift and greeting to Sagunt, Spain. This was the first personal encounter between him and Moes/Gabriel after seven years.

If one compares the condition of the two objects, two radically different lifestyles are reflected in an almost flagrant manner. Houseworker – Fieldworker. The two booklets allude to the joint authorship of the character Gabriel. It is an organic and dialogical process in which the actions and path, the signs and movements of Gabriel are at the disposition. In a new, still unfamiliar way, as Schindele says: „For Moes invited me to write with him in 2018 toward an alter ego – which he himself is – and that has existed since 2005.“