Forests appear frequently in Ernst’s works and recall his feelings of the ‘enchantment and terror’ of the woods near his childhood home. Forests are a potent symbol in German tradition, and were also adopted by the Surrealist group as a metaphor for the imagination. In this work, a small dove, which Ernst liked to use as a symbol to represent himself, is trapped among menacing trees. The shapes are created using a technique he called ‘grattage’, in which paint is scraped across the canvas to reveal the imprint of objects placed beneath.(caption in gallery)
Jagged forest and one small dove... how I feel. Although I'm not as nice as a dove!
This caught my attention straight away, the title the idea the darkness and how it sucked me in and made me imagine I was that dove in the horrible dark rough forest. I am going to use this image when experimenting with the projector idea I have had.
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