New Work in progress Spring into Autumn 2025




100x80 cm, unframed,
gouache on canvas
This project is a research how to transform sense reality in such a way that the spiritual significance of sensory existence can be expressed.
The exploration is underpinned with Goethe’s phenomenology and Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875—1926) poetry.
The unifying poetic image that Rilke employs through out Duino Elegies is that of angels, which carry many meanings, albeit not the usual Christian connotations. The angels represent a higher force in life, both beautiful and terrible, completely indifferent to mankind; they represent the power of poetic vision, as well as Rilke’s personal struggle to reconcile art and life.
Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition Published by North Point Press (edition First Edition), 2001
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DINA LEIGH
MA Fine Art