Contemporary Abstract Stone Drawing by Pauline Kochanski

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Currently, my work consists of drawings in color pencil, graphite, and ink on paper and vellum along with the ceramics. … Read more Currently, my work consists of drawings in color pencil, graphite, and ink on paper and vellum along with the ceramics. A few years ago, as my mother’s health was failing, my thoughts when to the life she and my father had as Holocaust survivors. I wanted to do something with stones, bones and barbed wire to honor them and others that were lost to war, whose bodies were never found. The stone drawings were produced on Stonehenge paper while the vellum sheets had ink drawings of stones, bones and barbed wire. As I was working on these drawings, I showed one to my mother who said, “These remind me of the stones we had to carry.” I knew I was on the right track. The exhibition that comes out of this, “The Past is Still With Us,” included an installation of drawings, with a table and drawing enclosed by a curtain and four walls in a small room, barbed wire, and drawings outside of the room. A video about this exhibition was produced because I wanted visitors to be interviewed on how space made them feel. See less