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artemis herber

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  wraps
(acrylic on cardboard, 2004)

   
  qualities of the wraps:

the suggestion of natural process
using material, that is visibly vulnerable to the effects of human treatment:
warping, shrinking, shriveling and cracking, their nicks, chips, bruises, scars, dents, peeling.

- all things are impermanent -

   
 

irregular
human-made, handmade "wrong" (clumsy, awkward) offers of lines, shapes, cuts, insecure positions or attitudes,
exhibit the effects of accident or may show the result of just letting things happen by chance.

- all things are imperfect -

   
 

intimate
quiet, compact, inward-oriented, they beckon you: get close, touch, relate, they are tranquil and calming, enveloping and womb-like.

   
 

unpretentious
unassuming, understated and artless,
coexist with their environment.

- all things are incomplete -

   
 

simple
simplicity, nothingness - before and after nothingness, simplicity is not so simple:
economy of means, pared down to the essence, without removing the poetry. clean, but not sterilized, never cold, but emotionally warm.

- things compel us to look at that something, over, and over, and over again -
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