Maria E Harrysson

Compensations and Emergency Horizon - KRETS Gallery 2016

Pencil on paper
2015-2016

Organic formations extracted from their regular context is a recurring theme in the work. Through fragmentation a sense of disruption is generated, which subtly disturbs familiar concepts, creating a void that we have to fill in ourselves. In a series of drawings, entitled Compensations, stone and shell shapes have been brutally cut, metaphorically reminiscent of the human impact on the environment.

Emergency Horizon is a parallel work to the drawings Compensations, these shapes reoccur as white spots on an ocean horizon; a reflection on an often romanticized backdrop, but where something is missing. 139,5x144 cm