Galina Ule measures geometric patterns

"I measure triangles with my fingers. Where my finger joint is, that's the end of the triangle. That's how a triangle is formed. Now I cut it like this after measuring it with my fingers. In the past, we also measured with fingernails. Here, from the start of the fingernail to its tip. Then you sew these small pieces together. Look, this is a whole fingernail. That forms a square. When I used to watch my mother when she was still alive, how she measured, she held her fingers like this. And on these small strips, I then attach all the pieces – squares, triangles, and rhombuses, about twenty small appliqués that I measured using my fingernails."

Recorded by Erich Kasten. Tilichiki, 2013.