Milk'n Honey

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ben shahn, “i never dared to dream,” 1960

Dorothea Tanning, Fantasy Figure, 1949

Académie des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, Congo 1970 by  Eliot Elisofon

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Mixed media and collage on cardboard, 31 x 24 cm

Currently stored in one of my favorite buildings: Beinecke Library

Skupljači Perja dir. Aleksandar Petrović (1967)

Maternity (Marc Chagall, 1912)

Simone Weil (centre, with spectacles) with a group of students

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Currently reading Lisa Saltzman’s Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz. Though I don’t agree with a large portion of her theory, her analysis of this early watercolor made me do a lot of thinking. Is this the ashen-haired Sulamith of Celan’s “Todesfuge”, in her spacious grave above the clouds after symbolically dying in the Holocaust? Or, as Saltzman suggests, is it a self-portrait of Kiefer and his working through his death of identity as a German artist born in 1945? Saltzman argues that this watercolor is both melancholic and a symptom of Kiefer’s own melancholia, his inability to mourn the Holocaust, instead inertly dwelling in his own loss.

Heksenkring x Haunted House Spooky Autumnal drawings, prints available in my Etsy shop Pencil, 2018