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Cherries in Moms bag
Sour cherries are one of the most cultivated fruit in Poland, where my mom is from. And plastic bags being "a Polish thing", I combine the two.
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Coping and Hoarding No.1
Part of a triptych depicting hoarding through still life's; how the objects we collect come to represent our psychology but also stand in place for us. The bouquet is myself coping whilst the objects overwhelm with insufficiency.
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Coping and Hoarding No.2
Part of a triptych depicting hoarding through still life's; how the objects we collect come to represent our psychology but also stand in place for us. The bouquet is myself coping whilst the objects overwhelm with insufficiency.
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Coping and Hoarding No.3
Part of a triptych depicting hoarding through still life's; how the objects we collect come to represent our psychology but also stand in place for us. The bouquet is myself coping whilst the objects overwhelm with insufficiency.
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Enter the Void
Inspired by Francis Bacon's spaces as well as the inescapability of subjective perception of our reality. In this case, the imaginative taking hold and causing disorientation.
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Existential Dread... and Other Pains
The phenomenon of being is in full totality; inescapable and constantly reflective to you. All you have left is doubt.
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Floating By
The start of representing presence of being in absence of use in human-oriented objects. The still life is a portrait of myself and the empty chair is of my disassociation from reality.
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Hiding
The beginning of understanding how objects, in this case the flowers of a still life, are like self portrait. Stripping down the body to its joints, I am highlighting the body as flesh and bones.
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Mom's Bags and Slippers
A psycho-active representation of the back kitchen door in my childhood home.
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Nightmare Bouquet
A dark and contrasting still life in combination with dice dots; leaving the imagination up to chance.
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Pareidolia
Pareidolia is a complex form of illusion where we identify patterns in spaces or compositions. This includes faces or butterflies in inkblots, or in this case figures in the dark. When looking at a chair, I feel someone sitting in it; a presence of... More
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Sad Clown
The clown represents true authentic expression; it is an embodiment of the human condition.
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Weird Nightmare
Based on a nightmare of a hand pushing me down into a fisheye room resembling a windowless office. Perhaps alluding to my distaste for arbitrary authority and under-stimulating jobs. These nightmares have strong influences on me, making me question... More
Work by
Natalie Wesselius
Multi-disciplinary
“Obsessing over our relationships to domestic objects in a dissociating commodified world, I create psycho-active timeless spaces that signify both the presence and absence of the figure. Using...” [More]