Transmogrifications
Drawings (some over prints) by Norbert J. Freese
Drawings (some over prints) by Norbert J. Freese
- Nightmare on Helm Street
- Panic at Catherine's
- Ari Returns
- Adornment to a Crucifixion
- The French Correction
- Clyfford's Yard
- Startling Self Portrait
- Re-membering
- A Natural Order
- Speechless
- Birds of Ohio
- Moonrise
- Collecting Thoughts About Small Trees
- Mercury, Electricity and Artaud at Rodez
- Mutation at Mingo Junction
- Music, After the Rain
- The Argument against History
- Freese, August
Startling Self Portrait
Ink drawing in hand-made artist's frame, 1999, 192 x 132 mm. (framed 330 x 278 mm.). After an encounter with, and rescue of, a wounded bird, artist and bird momentarily and partly exchanged beings. Freese chose that moment for a self-portrait. With meticulous hand and capricious mind, he re-presents himself to us as an injured and bedraggled woodpecker. Titled, signed and dated verso.