Made by the artist’s assistant. Two original photographs of the artist were manipulated, using imaging software, and combined with text that was supplied by the artist via a dream state. The finished print, on paper, was constructed into 28 (half the artist’s age when she left the physical realm) origami Krähen (crows). The image here shows the reverse/inner/back of the unfolded paper, and features a short poem, adapted from a song taken from a 1952 version of the German film ‘Alraune’ (‘Mandrake’).
The poem roughly translates into English as:
‘She was lonely and her spirit so strong,
Felt joy as also pain,
She will see again as a soul,
Her Art breathes new worth.’
The text underneath says something like:
This crow is an original artwork in memory of Barbara Ryan, artist (1966-2023), who between 1992 and 1994 lived and worked in Berlin. She found friends for life, visited the city many times and some of her ashes are also scattered here.
