Fruit Bat no. 4, Harvard Museum, Bosten

Still Life

Wilderness is portrayed in an artificial interior or as a representative of a species. The model becomes an optical illusion, for it is not presenting reality, but rather an image of reality: our notion of what makes a rabbit a rabbit. I am fascinated by the haunting gaze of its glass eyes and the paltry boldness of its expression, as well as the paradox of exhibiting wild animals in display cases.

format: oil on gesso, sizes varying
shown: Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich/ Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Rapperswil/ Joyce Goldstein Gallery, NY
year: 2000 - 2002

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Red Deer, Sammlung der ETH, Zürich, 2004
Jackrabbit, American Museum of Natural History, N.Y., 2001
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