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(1161) Barbara Rehbehn - Rotation
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About this artwork
Wind is a powerful source of energy. It moves things. It moves the blades of a windmill. A windmill mills grain. Grain that nurtures wo/man.
Wind is powerful. It moves things, it moves the blades of wind turbines. Wind turbines generate electricity. Electricity that moves our world. Electricity that mills grain.
Blades rotating through centuries to alleviate our burden of making a sustainable live.
In my work I use old photographs – found objects, to be overlaid by shapes and color.
For Rotation I choose a pattern comprised of one rotating geometric shape in three shades of light blue.
Whether this pattern is geometric though is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe the pattern forms into tulips. Which could then be understood as a subtle nod to the country of windmills and flowers. Or maybe it’s just the texture of the sky.
The photography used as base is part of the Nationaal Archief collection and depicts a large wind turbine near Medemblik, Netherlands, 1986
About Barbara
I make digital collages, overlaying color, shapes and pattern onto vintage photography (found objects). I am intrigued by the stories old photographs taken over a 100 years ago have imbedded in them. Questions arise when modifying a document that bares witness of a time when life’s circumstance was so very different.
The product of a technology that back then brought on a huge change to how one would document the world being introduced to the digital space – that again generated so much change – creates a contrast that interests me greatly.
Juxtaposition is a recurring theme in my work, which has accompanied me through different media.
I currently work in the digital medium only, because of limitations caused by OCD. The contrast between analog and digital is something I seek out purposefully. Patterns have been part of my work from the beginning. I have also been exploring the effect of drawing each element by hand vs creating a repeating pattern tile.
Link to Barbara’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Barbara was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 4
The story of the world and it’s peoples.
The Continent of Europe
