This new body of glass works unfolds as a dialogue between fragility and transcendence, where color, light, and material become conduits of the unconscious. Each piece emerges from a process of layered experimentation, involving the exposure of photographic film to light, archival pigment prints, and the direct application of paint to diamond glass, creating compositions that shift between accident and intention.
These works embody the elusive moment: an unrepeatable instant, often dismissed, yet charged with hidden meaning. Through the interplay of transparency and opacity, they invite the viewer to perceive not only surface but also depth, a visual echo of the psyche’s inner strata. Drawing inspiration from Jung’s ideas of individuation and the existential search for meaning, the works transform fragments of time into luminous abstractions. They are more depictions than revelations, thresholds where the unconscious is given form through color, gesture, and light.
Frederik Erfurt’s glassworks capture the fleeting instant, an analog fragment of time that might otherwise dissolve into obscurity, transforming it into something both luminous and enduring. These works resonate deeply with our moment in the Anthropocene, where questions of permanence and loss, memory and disappearance, define human experience. Each piece is an archaeology of light, preserving traces of what would otherwise vanish and asking how beauty might emerge from what seems broken, obsolete, or forgotten.
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