Notebooks

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In her Notebooks, Stef Kreymborg uses twigs, threads, paper or wood to whimsically record her experiences and memories in her own unique way.
Comments, stories, notes, anecdotes, observations, opinions and descriptions of high and low points find their place here to be told and to be ‘read’.
As in all her work, the rhythm of the ‘text’, the ordering of the ‘letters’, ‘words’ , ‘musicalnotes’ and ‘syllables’ is the guiding principle of her collection. It is a study on regularity in all its variations, an investigation into order and chaos, into structure, symmetry, asymmetry, individuality and collaboration.
The fact that the texts are impossible to read is both intriguing and unsettling. This invites viewers to use their imagination to make meaning from the script. Furthermore, in obscuring some of the text with another layer of ‘paper’, Stef brings up the question of whether in this time of individualism and communication everything really can be shared and seen.

Dutch writer Renate Dorrestein on Stef Kreymborg’s ‘written work’:

In my work I’m always looking for words that evoke images, but here it’s the other way around: now, I see images that represent words. Stef Kreymborg shows us in a fascinating way how inadequate and inept language is, and how fervent, neverthess, the human desire for communication is, reaching, when necessary, beyond the limits of the meagre alphabet.

Trilogy / wood,twigs

Dear Hairy / Threads on wood

 

Poem / Map

Confusing story / Threads on paper

Poems and stories / Felt and map

 

Music sketch 

Wooden book 250 x 150

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