Blue Melt 19 Arvid Boecker For almost thirty years

For almost thirty years

Each work results from preliminary studies drawn with pen or pencil and which sometimes can amount to 20 sketches

He tends to be “in” the configuration that is the subject of the work

among many others

Blue Melt 19 Arvid Boecker For almost thirty yearsBlue Melt are works that have been created with pigment pencils and ice. Peerna starts the drawings by first marking vertical pigment lines onto plastic paper. She then methodically applies water or ice, causing the lines on the surface to melt and drip. The drawing only stops making itself when the water has dried. The resulting drip marks on the works capture the moment when solid turns into liquid, drawing a visual parallel to the moment when ice