Lena Klett

During the past couple of months, I’ve oscillated between extremes of emotions, trying to figure out how to move forward, how to stay still, how to care for myself and others, and how to find balance. I’ve started an ongoing series of drawings that are meditations on the grid as a marker of a false sense of security. In particular, I’ve been drawn to this quote from Lewis Hyde’s book, Trickster Makes this World: “the models we devise to account for the world and the shapes we create to make ourselves at home in it are all too often inadequate to the complexity of things and end up deadened by their own exclusions” (p. 179). So too, the grid as a marker of stability, knowledge, and structure becomes an inadequate way to address the world, revealing idealism and perfectionism in its execution, but ultimately failing to encompass the totality of a thing.

1. False sense of security I, 2020, Mixed media on paper, 8” x 8, $120
2. False sense of security II, 2020, Mixed media on paper, 8.5” x 6”, $100
3. False sense of security III, 2020, Mixed media on paper, 8.5” x 6”, $100
4. False sense of security IV, 2020 Mixed media on paper, 8.5” x 6”, $100

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