Driftwood
- The artist's studio is a deserted island where all sorts of material drifts ashore from across the sea. The sea contains all art
ever create - but loss, waves and currents have brought that which belonged
together away from each other, and that which had no relationship, together.
Some of it has sunk to the bottom and is forever gone. Another way to look at
it: The gallery is the beach, the artwork is the driftwood. The contemplator
considers the debris. So what is the meaning of this, she wonders..
--
2009 (series of 6 works)
Starseeker
oil on canvas and
stretcher, staples, mountings, screws
265
x 120 x
Rocket 1+2
oil on stretcher,
glue, screws
140 x 120 x
Sign
Oil on stretcher, staples,
mountings, screws
150 x 120 x
Weapon
Oil on canvas and
stretcher, staples
179 x 32 x
Sail Away (the Great
Escape)
Oil on stretcher, canvas,
staples, mountings, bolts, screws
194 x 170 x
Art history may be coined metaphorically
as a kind of cultural driftwood passed onward to us, here in the shape of
prefabricated materials meant for art-production, specifically painting. The
idea of this allegory is to release the material both mentally and concrete
from its apriori purpose, like driftwood of unknown
origins, gently letting a process of associations and disassociations freely
develop new constellations. The strictly limited material use (stretcher,
canvas, oilpaint, staples, wire, mountings; a kind of
make-it-yourself-painting-kit ) is contrasted by
floating lyrical intentions, still somehow connected to the mythos
of art.