THe finnish poems: Sabine Pick
Sabine Pick’s The Finnish Poems is a body of work developed after spending a month in Finland, late last year. Fragmented shapes, which have been created by cutting and tearing letterpress printed typographical characters, calligraphic handwriting, and pages from old art books, are arranged into minimalist collages. The colours are deep and contemplative that arose in the winter where there is little daylight and long dark evenings. As artist Dennis Parlante says, “Collage looks really easy until you recognise it as literal re-patterning of bits of reality.” The making of each work is intuitive and unplanned. The fragmented shapes transform the once readable letters, pictures or words into unreadable and hidden forms. The torn or hand cut edges of the paper, combined with the hidden parts of letters or shapes, conjure a range of thoughts and questions.
Image: The Weight Of Stillness, 2019, paper collage, framed, 31.5x36.5cm
