vanessa german b. 1976
Black Imagination, 2023
Barn beam, wood, absence of shame, braids cut from the artists’ hair, dreaming of flight, imagining love, worthlessness and its attendant scars, magnifying glasses, rose quartz, porcelain birds, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, porcelain monkeys, love, how it is to not recognize your own face in the mirror, cloth, yarn, twine, ribbon, beaded glass trim, lust, 8 ball into the corner pocket, locks and keys, old chandelier, porcelain elephant, self loathing, red light from an old Buick century, old doll parts, beads, buttons, wire, a way home, how it feels to make art and fall in love again and again and again, love, love, love, porcelain figurines, Schulman resonance, being human book, falling in love book, shoes, red mug, a device of emancipatory spirit, 3 miracles and an endless sigh of grace, rage, lightbulbs that don’t work anymore, blind spot mirrors.
81 x 29 x 25 in
205.7 x 73.7 x 63.5 cm
205.7 x 73.7 x 63.5 cm