The line represents the central element of the artist’s visual expression. Through a technically refined approach, she constructs scenes by densely layering countless lines, which ultimately create the illusion of strikingly vivid close-up depictions of coniferous tree canopy fragments—specifically framing those parts of the whole drawn to the light of the sky. Through the hypnotic undulation of the organic forms of branches, one can sense, on a symbolic level, the meeting point between the material and the spiritual. Tina Konec’s upward gaze into the treetops continuously renders decentered images of trees that seem to stretch far beyond the depicted. Sensitive images, woven from a microcosm of densely interlaced organic forms, flow from one drawing to the next in manifold monochromatic variations, and when placed side by side, they create an illusionistic vision of a forested landscape.
Katarina Hergold Germ
