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3 sheets of engraved 2mm glass, each spaced 5mm apart, over a unique mono print on watercolor paper bearing shadowy images of the glass engraving.
This work features a text from We Learned by Erica Jong, (see below). This is engraved in concentric circles and manifests itself as a surreal third dimension over the background image, which is itself composed from scans of the glass engraving. This background image is a combination of an archival digital mono-print, plus hand painting of various paint splashes. The layers of glass also feature many small drops of clear resin, which appear like 3-D water droplets.
The title of Invisible Poem results from the fact that the subtlety of the engraving, (which is a writing without ink), is in some lights overpowered by the effect of it's own shadows printed on the background. In such light the work may appear as a normal flat picture, until the third dimension and the poem reveal themselves on closer inspection. In stronger light, however, the combination of highlights and shadows lend an extra magic.
See this manuscript covered
with flesh-colored words?
It was written in invisible ink
& held up to our flame.
The words darkened on the page
as we sank into each other.
We are ink & blood
& all things that make stains.
We turn each other golden as we turn,
browning each other's skins like suns.
Hold me up to the light;
you will see poems.
Hold me in the dark;
you will see light.
© Erica Mann Jong
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Price: € 320 (Euros)
includes picture framing
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