Night 1 and 2

_{In the artist’s evocative Night Series, tree canopies come to life on a dark background, their intricate structures of needle-like branches appearing—through the absence of color and the deep tone of the surface—almost like photographic negatives. Night is a special time of day, a moment when human perception shifts into a different, heightened state. As dense darkness absorbs all the viewer’s senses, the morphology of trees also changes: clear, recognizable forms dissolve, giving way to an altered vision of the world. And yet, even though trees in the forest—those that offer shelter by day—often turn into frightening phantoms in the human imagination at night, the nocturnal images of Tina Konec offer quite the opposite. In her dense, dark landscapes, one senses a profound stillness. Sensitive images, woven from a microcosm of densely interlaced organic forms, flow from one drawing to the next in manifold monochromatic variations. When placed side by side, they form an illusionistic vision of a forested landscape.
Katarina Hergold Germ}