Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers Fra digtsamlingerne ’Alle himle regner’

Fra digtsamlingerne ’Alle himle regner’ og ’Der er noget der lyser’

essays og småtekster af Anne Carson

rejser tilbage til Björgvin for at købe en gave til Alida

taking in glaciers and deserts

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers Fra digtsamlingerne ’Alle himle regner’In April 1919, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint ventured outside her studio to draw the first blossoms of spring. Having spent the previous decade creating an epic series of paintings filled with vivid geometric and organic formsamong that eras earliest explorations of abstractionshe was now embarking on a project rooted in study of the natural world. I will try, she declared, to grasp the flowers of the earth. The resulting watercolors, af Klints