"From time to time I like to take a philosophical text at hand and use it as source for my drawings.Last year I risked to choose Martin Heidegger's essay, "The Origin of the Work of Art" during a stay in high alpine areas in the direct neighborhood of a Lake-Reservoir. This human-made construction in the midst of a landscape of rocks seemed to me a suitable metaphor of the relation of philosophy of art to the work of art - an encounter of "Earth" and "World", as Heidegger thought it. The connection between spiritual heights and those given by nature seemed obvious. (...)"
Maria Bussman was born in 1966 in Würzburg, Germany. She lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and New York, USA.
Heidegger's Cabin - Maria Bussmann - 2005
20 drawings (pencil on hand made paper), 20x30cm
"Having returned from the mountains, I continued during the winter and spring (2004/2005) to work on this idea by making a series of 20 drawings to Heidegger's essay."
