A four story tower, in the shape of a standing female figure, facade like that of a log cabin which you can enter and explore.
Sissel Kardel works from documentary photographs that correspond to visions in which a contemplative female figure is set against the landscape. Her work exists along the same mystical trajectory as that of Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, E. Monk, A. P Ryder, Monet or Rothko. These transcendental landscapes transform the viewer into "the monk before the sea"- standing on the threshold of infinity, observing the landscape with a "spiritual eye".
Kardel begins her paintings by setting out on a physical journey to secret places in the remote wilderness. There, she documents herself and the landscape, which she then transmutes into her paintings. She depicts the character nude to affirm a timelessness, and as a metaphor for the human condition: we come into this world and leave it naked. Our garment is our body. Similarly, Kardel's sculptures depict the female figure nude in iconic sphinx-like power symbols such as TWP (Mountain), Kali, or her six foot standing "Kori" figure sculpted from blue and cream cowry shells. The shell skin becomes the former "landscapes" covering the iconic female figure in "nature".
Sissel Kardel's proposed new body of work will include the giant standing log-cabin tower/totem shaped like a woman. Known as "The Well" by day and "The Cave" by night. This log cabin lady will be a four story structure, the surface of which is covered with and constructed of logs, with 7 'windows' running up her center. People will be able to enter her body and climb the stairs, look out of her eyes, view the landscape, or camp out if desired. There will be a crows nest at her crown. The sculpture/ structure/ tower should be built like an erector set with interlocking blocks and hence be portable, so that it may be installed at sites such as fields or in the woods. Estimated cost of construction is $15,000. per floor in its rawest form. The log pattern will follow the body and radiate out in patterns from central points where the windows are to be located, echoing nature and constructed reality like that of a spiders web, referencing her tarantella silk paintings or a may pole. The windows will create a color spectrum, and the female icon becomes a portal, and a house of ceremony reaffirming the marriage of art and life, the transitory nature of the flesh and the charge in objects we leave behind. Copyright SISSEL KARDEL 2011
A four story tower, in the shape of a standing female figure, facade like that of a log cabin which you can enter and explore.
Sissel Kardel works from documentary photographs that correspond to visions in which a contemplative female figure is set against the landscape. Her work exists along the same mystical trajectory as that of Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, E. Monk, A. P Ryder, Monet or Rothko. These transcendental landscapes transform the viewer into "the monk before the sea"- standing on the threshold of infinity, observing the landscape with a "spiritual eye".
Kardel begins her paintings by setting out on a physical journey to secret places in the remote wilderness. There, she documents herself and the landscape, which she then transmutes into her paintings. She depicts the character nude to affirm a timelessness, and as a metaphor for the human condition: we come into this world and leave it naked. Our garment is our body. Similarly, Kardel's sculptures depict the female figure nude in iconic sphinx-like power symbols such as TWP (Mountain), Kali, or her six foot standing "Kori" figure sculpted from blue and cream cowry shells. The shell skin becomes the former "landscapes" covering the iconic female figure in "nature".
Sissel Kardel's proposed new body of work will include the giant standing log-cabin tower/totem shaped like a woman. Known as "The Well" by day and "The Cave" by night. This log cabin lady will be a four story structure, the surface of which is covered with and constructed of logs, with 7 'windows' running up her center. People will be able to enter her body and climb the stairs, look out of her eyes, view the landscape, or camp out if desired. There will be a crows nest at her crown. The sculpture/ structure/ tower should be built like an erector set with interlocking blocks and hence be portable, so that it may be installed at sites such as fields or in the woods. Estimated cost of construction is $15,000. per floor in its rawest form. The log pattern will follow the body and radiate out in patterns from central points where the windows are to be located, echoing nature and constructed reality like that of a spiders web, referencing her tarantella silk paintings or a may pole. The windows will create a color spectrum, and the female icon becomes a portal, and a house of ceremony reaffirming the marriage of art and life, the transitory nature of the flesh and the charge in objects we leave behind. Copyright SISSEL KARDEL 2011