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K. S. Ernst
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Drop Caps: C2 The “Drop Caps” series was begun in 2006 and completed in 2007. This series investigates how we frame words — literally. While a drop cap is usually used to denote the beginning of a text, here the three-dimensional capital letters are framed by the text itself. Indeed, the text spills over on top of the letter, and sometimes the text is readable only on the letter itself. Wooden letter, wooden frame, laser-printed paper, acrylic paint. 5 x 6 x .75 inches. 2007. Unique. $500 |
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Piercing the Veil An examination of the beyond via the world of mediums and channeling. This piece depicts the death (“passing”) of the letter ‘A.’ Wooden frame, wooden letters, acrylic paint, fabric. 8 x 6 x 2.5 inches. 2007. Unique. $500 - This work is by special order only. Please contact gallery to confirm availability. Shop our online gallery of current inventory here. |
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About the ArtistErnst is interested in words and letters as symbols — their basic symbolic make-up as well as their representational use. She works in Visual Poetry, a poetry in which the form or format of the poem becomes integrated so completely with the content that changing the form destroys or changes the meaning of the poem. Three-dimensional pieces became her main work once she discovered the dimensional letters seen in many of her artworks. Some of these works are stand-alone poems; others are poems in “books,” although the pages are wood and the book is rigid; among the stand-alone pieces are sculptural objects that have three-dimensional non-alphabetic subjects that take the place of part of the text. Her art is included in many collections, including Ohio State University Collection of Avant Garde and Experimental Writing, the Beinecke Library’s American Literature Collection at Yale University, and significant private collections including the renowned Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. |
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