• 2002 - eschenauer journal
  • description
  • 'eschenauer journal', eschenau januar-dezember 2002 (detail)
    herman de vries & susanne jacob-de vries, mitarbeit: marion reißner
    mixed media 40 (of 173) parts, each part 31 × 22.4 cm (all 173 parts: 127 × 988 cm)
    Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart.
  • first row (from left to right):
    1. title page with view of eschenau from the forest 2002
    2. carex/sedge 02.06.02
    3. forest floor: beech with dead fern leaf 04.02.02
    4. moss from a tree stump 02.07.02
    5. xylaria fungus 12.02
  • second row:
    6. peucedanum sp. 22.05.02
    7. bupleurum falcata 26.08.02
    8. dead nettles 27.11.02
    9. birch 24.12.02
    10. unity 2002
  • third row:
    11. my own blood 18.07.02
    12. birch bark (undated)
    13. butterfly wings collected from under a buddleia bush in my garden (buuterflies probably eaten by birds) 07.02
    14. vaccinium myrtillus 10.02
    15. feathers collected outside my home and then dropped randomly onto paper 08.09.02
  • fourth row:
    16. geranium colombinum 06.02
    17. equisetum sp. 27.06.02
    18. sunflower petals (plants grown as crop) 15.07.02
    19. peucedanum sp. 21.06.02
    20. fallen leaves of acer platanoides 06.11.02
  • fifth row:
    21. mainly euonymus alata (spindle tree) 14.10.02
    22. fallopia dumetorum (polygonaceae) 29.12.02
    23. grass 18.07.02
    24. artefact: crushed newspaper among dead vegetation 14.02.02
    25. humulus - last remains of hops formerly cultivated in eschenau for home consumption 02.02.02
  • sixth row:
    26. young stem of blackthorn 24.12.02
    27. field names from the landscape around eschenau 2002
    28. acer pseudoplatanus with fungus 29.12.02
    29. earth rubbins from around eschenau 2002
    30. earth rubbings: five earths 09.02
  • seventh row:
    31. rye 05.06.02
    32. dead grass lying flat on the ground after snow with the feathers of a bird 05.02.02
    33. roots of alnus (alder) 01.10.02
    34. seeds of tragopogon pratensis 17.06.02
    35. quacking grass 05.06.02
  • eighth row:
    36. moss 05.06.02
    37. sanguisorba officinalis 22.07.02
    38. flattened cow dung 07.09.02
    39. heraclaeum sphonylium 18.07.02
    40. petasites hybridus 22.05.02
  • exhibited
  • Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart (2003)
  • Schloss Moyland, Bedburg Hau (2009) / Kunsthalle Schweinfurt (2010)
  • Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam (2010)
  • IMAGE CREDITS
    Photo Bruno Schneyer, Zeil am Main
    © herman de vries