August 6, 2024
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For Hilma 2023
Graphite, watercolour, egg tempera on sewn vintage book pages
24 x 18.4 cm l 9.5 x 7.25 in
Inspired by the shapes and colours of Hilma af Klimt’s work, I made these little paintings to work in tandem with a series of drawings titled Becoming a Forest (page 18). They are drawn onto the sewn pages from a hundred-year-old book that was coming apart at the spine. Although it felt odd to make marks and colour over the existing story, there was a subtle joy in the melding of words to visual imagery and the value of extending the life of a book that seemed destined to be discarded
