Description
About this piece:
For a long time I was preoccupied with thinking and creating work about transience and death. This book is presenting death from various perspectives (Memento Mori) and life (Carpe Diem) in a symbolic way. Dead rose is followed by alive rose.
Materials:
paper, ink, thread
About the artist:
Beata Wehr is an award winning visual artist and educator. She was born
in Warsaw, Poland, and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, traveling back to Europe every year.
She graduated from Warsaw University in Poland with M.A. degree in art history and from the University of Arizona with M.F.A. in painting/combined media. She paints and creates artist’s books, examining in her work the ideas of home, place, time, transience and multicultural experiences. Her works were shown in many international and national exhibitions and are included in over 60 public collections in the USA and abroad.
