Denise Kraemer’s “In the Depth” at the Riverside Art Museum is a very interesting printmaking piece. This artwork of hers was made recently last year in her exhibition called: “Denise Kraemer: resolve, resolved, resolving”. I found this piece interesting because usually most artists who paints or draws birds are depicted as freely, multicolored or painted along with some sort of scenery. In contrast, her art piece had two different colored birds; and was stacked horizontally with threads everywhere. From afar, they looked like two pieces of wood, which caught my eye when I entered the gallery because why would anyone paint two pieces of wood adjacent to each other? Yet the colors of red and brown mixed in the middle, making it seem like yin…show more content… Also the birds’ stiffness and closed eyes are also the meaning of a life ending. In my opinion, birds cannot be enjoyed up close unless they’re dead because usually when people move towards a bird, the result of it flying away is expected. As for the threads intertwined between the two birds can signify of them dying together, they could have been siblings who unfortunately died together. The cycle of life can also be provided in this piece because how birds live and die, there is possibly an afterlife for these two birds and come alive again. In addition, reproduction also plays a role in which I doubt that birds are going to be extinct any time soon. This connects to us human beings how we pass away eventually and come back to life or possibly have an afterlife of an animal or some sort.
The title itself, “In the Depth” which means as time passes, names, places, and dates are forgotten, but the impact that they had on each of us continues through time, linking us together like an invisible thread. Denise Kraemer’s “In the Depth” is very intriguing, though we do not know why she had depicted birds in such a dark way, we must assume that these birds will possibly join the afterlife. Furthermore, they did not die individually but they died together. In conclusion, the artist also used a yin and yang effect of colors equaling two halves that together complete wholeness in
