Milk and Blood and Thing with Feathers
Milk and Blood and Thing with Feathers is an artwork consisting of a papermache sculpture augmented by sound and spoken poetry. Finished 2020
Detail of Milk and Blood and Thing with Feathers statue
Milk and Blood and Thing with Feathers is a papermache sculpture augmented with sound and spoken poetry. Finished 2020
Fabric of Motherhood 3
Fabric of motherhood is a print series in which I combine different printing techniques with collage to create one of a kind pieces of artwork
Fabric of Motherhood 2
Fabric of motherhood is a print series in which I combine different printing techniques with collage to create one of a kind pieces of artwork
Fabric of Motherhood 1
Fabric of motherhood is a print series in which I combine different printing techniques to create one of a kind pieces of artwork
In conversation
In conversation, installation book art by H. Kurzke 2018
In conversation, installation book art by H. Kurzke 2018
Detail of “Flight”, sculpture artwork by H. Kurzke, 2019, showing the head of the bird woman.
The tower the bird is sitting on is a found object. I believe it was once a bird feeder but I am not sure how it would have been used.
The bird-woman is made from papier mâché, parchment, piano string, wire, linen thread, and paper clay.
The nests are made with parchment, water acrylics, beeswax, and thread.
They hold a total of 10 quails’s eggs, painted from the inside with acrylics.
Flight
“Flight”, sculpture artwork by H. Kurzke, 2019.
The tower the bird is sitting on is a found object. I believe it was once a bird feeder but I am not sure how it would have been used.
The bird-woman is made from papier mâché, parchment, piano string, wire, linen thread, and paper clay.
The nests are made with parchment, water acrylics, beeswax, and thread.
They hold a total of 10 quails’s eggs, painted from the inside with acrylics.
Detail of “Flight”, sculpture artwork by H. Kurzke, 2019, showing the face of the sculpured bird woman.
The tower the bird is sitting on is a found object. I believe it was once a bird feeder but I am not sure how it would have been used.
The bird-woman is made from papier mâché, parchment, piano string, wire, linen thread, and paper clay.
The nests are made with parchment, water acrylics, beeswax, and thread.
They hold a total of 10 quails’s eggs, painted from the inside with acrylics.
Flight, detail
Detail of “Flight”, sculpture artwork by H. Kurzke, 2019, showing the feet of the bird woman clinging on to the iron cage.
The tower the bird is sitting on is a found object. I believe it was once a bird feeder but I am not sure how it would have been used.
The bird-woman is made from papier mâché, parchment, piano string, wire, linen thread, and paper clay.
The nests are made with parchment, water acrylics, beeswax, and thread.
They hold a total of 10 quails’s eggs, painted from the inside with acrylics.
Flight, detail
Detail of “Flight”, sculpture artwork by H. Kurzke, 2019, showing the inside of one of the painted quail’s eggs.
The tower the bird is sitting on is a found object. I believe it was once a bird feeder but I am not sure how it would have been used.
The bird-woman is made from papier mâché, parchment, piano string, wire, linen thread, and paper clay.
The nests are made with parchment, water acrylics, beeswax, and thread.
They hold a total of 10 quails’s eggs, painted from the inside with acrylics.
Message in a Bottle
Bottle No. 72 of my ongoing project message in a bottle
Project message in a Bottle, Detail of Bottle No. 72
The miniature bed has a tiny sewed cusion and a cover which are both filled with cottonwool. The blanked also contains a magnet, as does the fully functional book which also has text in it. All were put into a message in a bottle. The bottle has the title “Small Worlds – The Bed”.
Artwork by Hilke Kurzke
Photo by Hilke Kurzke
Old Lace
Old Lace is a story about an old lacemaker and how she became who and where she is.
It is a story about secrets and hidden feeling, hints for both of which can be found in hidden compartments of this edition.
The book has the structure of a modified winged binding.
artwork: Hilke Kurzke
photo: Studio Ernst
Old Lace, detail
Old Lace is a story about an old lacemaker and how she became who and where she is.
It is a story about secrets and hidden feeling, hints for both of which can be found in hidden compartments of this edition.
The book has the structure of a modified winged binding.
artwork: Hilke Kurzke
photo: Studio Ernst
Erased
This copy of my poem erased was bound by me, using stitched together pieces of parchment for a wrapper. The poem istself ist written onto single pages. In this photo you can see the first two pages.
artwork Hilke Kurzke
photo Hilke Kurzke
Absences
Absences is a short story by Hilke Kurzke.
text and artwork Hilke Kurzke
photo Hilke Kurzke
Absences
Absences is a flash fiction story by Hilke Kurzke.
Made into an open edition of handmade and handwritten books.
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