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''Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer'' (Wanderer Above the Mist) by Caspar David Friedrich, 1818. Cover image from the 1902 English-language edition of Goethe's ''The Sorrows of | ''Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer'' (Wanderer Above the Mist) by Caspar David Friedrich, 1818. Cover image from the 1902 English-language edition of Goethe's ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'', translated by R.D. Boylan, Edited by Nathen Haskell Dole | ||
My work, an untitled collection of objects, looks to explore ideas surrounding cultural and historical value. I am interested in objects and other forms of representation that appropriate ideas of value as simply another material. The construction of identity, place, politics and economy are naturally implicated, as are references to museology, the Romantic and Classical periods, and contemporary art practice. | My work, an untitled collection of objects, looks to explore ideas surrounding cultural and historical value. I am interested in objects and other forms of representation that appropriate ideas of value as simply another material. The construction of identity, place, politics and economy are naturally implicated, as are references to museology, the Romantic and Classical periods, and contemporary art practice. | ||
