I came across the work of Kirsten Hassenfeld last year sometime, but it didn’t hit me right. I don’t know what’s changed about me since then, but I can’t get enough of it now. Working mostly with paper and other light media in a very pale palette, Kirsten creates installations of ethereal geometry relying on small points of light, and a sense of space. These are the kinds of installations that lute music was made for. Hassenfeld lights a lot of her pieces from within which adds to their complexity by removing a lot of the shadows, making it hard to discern all the details. She increases complexity by increasing visual simplicity. There’s more going on here than I could hope to explain in a short post.
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