Pollen
Watercolor, ink, pencil, color pencil, marker, pastel , gouache, and archival inkjet prints
Dimensions variable
2017

Pollen pairs diverse works on paper and photographs as fragments of a whole. The title references the 1798 collection of poems “Blüthenstaub” by poet and philosopher Novalis, who developed the fragment as a literary form and strived to unite science and poetry in his work. Unfolding a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous observations, scientific and mathematical ideas and questions, the studies in the installation range from the problem of squaring the square to the visualisation of the smell of spring, the light of a star Caph when the artist was born, the colour of a dream, the representation of light reflections, the mapping of a shadow, as well as a meticulous drawing of the artist’s own iris.