Winter, Helga
About the artist
“I have made something new, unfamiliar and possibly shocking out of something very familiar to us. Taking a book full of words and possibly full of knowledge and turning it inside out — I have hidden the words, that nevertheless are still there — we can’t see but glimpses of them and might assume the words have vanished.
Much of our true knowledge may be hidden, shapeless, quiet, buried deep inside — we can’t see it, feel it and we often assume it is not there.
While deconstructing a book, I am rewriting, rewiring, reconstructing, relearning and rethinking. By turning the books inside out I want to turn my stories, my preconceived ideas inside out, recognize how they diminish my life, and then create new, conscious stories that are closer to the truth, allowing for new possibilities and greater potential freedom and strength.”
