Shields for Humans / drawings
Shields for Humans, 2000
Graphite on paper, each 59" x 8" (150cm x 210cm)
As drawings, the "shields for humans" series works on a similar level as the "black shields" series does. Here I emphasize the frontality and mass of an imaginary shield-like form. The drawings confront a person as a massive, yet at the same time almost fragile form. Various layers of graphite powder are worked and incised by pencil and eraser-lines. As drawings they build up a tension that plays with the viewer's physicality.
The steel frames clearly set them as two-dimensional planes in the room. They ensure the freedom and the restrictions of a picture plane and toy with the aspect of a shield in regard to a person's body.
See also: Being Here - The Sculpture of Vanessa Paschakarnis.
