Pair+Despair

Exhibition: Online Exhibition 2025
Description of your entry: What means theater? Theater is about emotions and humans: therefore here I combined two persons, the Relation (the union between both) and the figure of the Fool, who holds the strings of the couple's emotions whilst it goes moving through life.

I here used flux from Soyer and vintage Schauer enamels on copper sheet to illustrate a couple's life. All pieces are enamelled (kiln enamelling) on both sides, because they shall be seen when moving. A kind of mobile, that can be hanged freely to follow the moves.
The process to create the object was: sawing and forming the copper sheet, covering it with flux, then drawing with glycerin, sifting black opaque, enamelling the drawn lines, and finally wetpacking various enamels until finished. All pieces were mounted together with prefabricated findings.
Dimensions (cm): complete mounting: length 34 cm, max. width 15 cm, inclu
Techniques: Painting, Press/fold forming, Wet process, Other
Main base material: Copper
Type of item: Other
Name of maker: Dagmar Dietz-Hertrich
Link to further information: http://artelier18_enameling.
Photo credit: I'm the author and photographer