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This cycle is a look at the persevering process. My focus here is on the actual act of survival from assault - an assault which reached down to the bones, the heart, the vital systems - but which ultimately did not destroy the core of life itself. Instead life begins to unfold itself more beautifully under the challenges pressed upon its existence.
"Privacy" is a direct selfportrait on a certain level - thus the female figure. The images in this cycle have been directly inspired by my earlier photographs. The rendering of the figure emphasises a near photographic realism which is then undermined by the gloomy cast of its grey tonality - through the medium of graphite pencil and charcoal - and the stress placed upon it from the surface and structure of the paper. For each piece of this cycle I have forged a particular paper surface corresponding to the stress, torment or healing the image proposes, be it stretched to its limits, fragile through its many perforations, marred by its rough, hide-like surface, or interfered with by embedded objects.
All images 1996 Karen Baldner
All work this page graphite on handmade paper
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1992
60"X50"
16"X17"
COURTESY OF
NELDA & JOHN EATON
1991
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COURTESY OF
DR. & MRS. STANLEY ROSENBERG
