UNCERTAIN FRAGMENTS
I visited the collection the Walter Benjamin Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2019. I made this small collection of replicas of Walter Benjamin’s scraps and fragments from material held in the archive during 2019/21. Benjamin gathered all kinds of ‘rag-pickings’ from everyday life, assortments of images, texts and signs, themselves representing experiences and ideas. My own experience of encountering his texts as they were written on discarded ephemera was profound and wanted to reproduce something of that intimacy in a way that could be shared. I made a series of painted originals that are also produced as a limited edition print series.
