Park (Park), Edition 1/10 Painting

The work is inspired by the artist’s German poem Park, an acoustic reading of which is found at http://www.ottolaske.com/poems/p_g_aam_park.mp3. It is a discordant work as befits the poem itself. To capture the experience of the artist, of walking in a park in his German homeland and finding himself imagine those ‘who only yesterday were singing massed under a heap of leaves’, the artist employs garish colors with an overlay of black strokes rising from the bottom. As the work intimates, the poetic I struggles with its nightmarish experience in which blood ‘pours forth from heartbreak, seeping into a seam of mist’, thereby turning the park into a morgue (‘Totensaal’). As a counterforce there arises a notion of peaceful sleep -- ‘gone the torment, forgotten the court sentence’ of those who were murdered, although the poem’s existential conclusion remains dire: ‘strangers (are) forever all who meet’. The work is printed on Hot Press Fine Art Smooth Bright White paper (an acid free, 100% cotton rag media with a bright textured finish, yielding an extremely high color gamut and black density). It is signed and numbered by the artist, accompanied by a CoA, and shipped without hanging hardware, in a very sturdy tube protected against folding and puncture.

Painting:Digital on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in

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