She Wore a Hat - Das Schwerste Gewicht
Gravity: The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
In life’s journey, we throw ourselves at many things, lovers, work, passions, and habits. If we throw with too little momentum, we fall back, as captured by gravity. With too much momentum, our lives can speed out of control, and yet, sometimes achieving balance, an endless orbit, can leave us in an interminable tug-of-war between staying on path, or the yearn to fall back, the ultimate gravity of consequences.
This series is a growing collection that explores that connection.
Fascinated by the Jungian archetype, She Wore a Hat - Das Schwerste Gewicht 2020 and In Over His Head 2020, both explore themes of masculinity and femininity. She Wore a Hat - Das Schwerste Gewicht alludes to the novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera. In the story, as in the composition, the character Sabina wears a hat as a sexual prop. The hat demeans her, illustrating how she allows and accepts inferior status. Das schwerste gewicht, literally translates as ‘the heaviest weight”, and refers to 19th century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of “eternal return,” and the notion that life is constantly recurring, that the universe is infinite — having no beginning and no end. The idea that one is reborn, lives, and dies over, and over again, eternally. The hat, a reoccurring motif in my art, explores both the themes that affect us as women, and as in the novel, the concept of “eternal return”.
Stated sizes may be close approximations.
Contact me for custom larger sizes
Pigment Print on 100% cotton rag paper, editions of 8, 4, 2 respectively, signed, titled, and numbered.
Contact me for shipping quote.
Gravity: The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
In life’s journey, we throw ourselves at many things, lovers, work, passions, and habits. If we throw with too little momentum, we fall back, as captured by gravity. With too much momentum, our lives can speed out of control, and yet, sometimes achieving balance, an endless orbit, can leave us in an interminable tug-of-war between staying on path, or the yearn to fall back, the ultimate gravity of consequences.
This series is a growing collection that explores that connection.
Fascinated by the Jungian archetype, She Wore a Hat - Das Schwerste Gewicht 2020 and In Over His Head 2020, both explore themes of masculinity and femininity. She Wore a Hat - Das Schwerste Gewicht alludes to the novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera. In the story, as in the composition, the character Sabina wears a hat as a sexual prop. The hat demeans her, illustrating how she allows and accepts inferior status. Das schwerste gewicht, literally translates as ‘the heaviest weight”, and refers to 19th century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of “eternal return,” and the notion that life is constantly recurring, that the universe is infinite — having no beginning and no end. The idea that one is reborn, lives, and dies over, and over again, eternally. The hat, a reoccurring motif in my art, explores both the themes that affect us as women, and as in the novel, the concept of “eternal return”.
Stated sizes may be close approximations.
Contact me for custom larger sizes
Pigment Print on 100% cotton rag paper, editions of 8, 4, 2 respectively, signed, titled, and numbered.
Contact me for shipping quote.
Gravity: The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
In life’s journey, we throw ourselves at many things, lovers, work, passions, and habits. If we throw with too little momentum, we fall back, as captured by gravity. With too much momentum, our lives can speed out of control, and yet, sometimes achieving balance, an endless orbit, can leave us in an interminable tug-of-war between staying on path, or the yearn to fall back, the ultimate gravity of consequences.
This series is a growing collection that explores that connection.
Fascinated by the Jungian archetype, She Wore a Hat - Das Schwerste Gewicht 2020 and In Over His Head 2020, both explore themes of masculinity and femininity. She Wore a Hat - Das Schwerste Gewicht alludes to the novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera. In the story, as in the composition, the character Sabina wears a hat as a sexual prop. The hat demeans her, illustrating how she allows and accepts inferior status. Das schwerste gewicht, literally translates as ‘the heaviest weight”, and refers to 19th century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of “eternal return,” and the notion that life is constantly recurring, that the universe is infinite — having no beginning and no end. The idea that one is reborn, lives, and dies over, and over again, eternally. The hat, a reoccurring motif in my art, explores both the themes that affect us as women, and as in the novel, the concept of “eternal return”.
Stated sizes may be close approximations.
Contact me for custom larger sizes
Pigment Print on 100% cotton rag paper, editions of 8, 4, 2 respectively, signed, titled, and numbered.
Contact me for shipping quote.