Kim Habers
H2O - Food for Thought
For this installation Kim worked with a computer for the first time. Ze digitalized her drawings so she could have them cut out with a laser cutter. The files for these digitized drawings that her computer crashed.
Usually Kim works with paper, but for this installation she needed something a little more sturdy. The material you she here are two layers of razor-thin birch wood glued together. The material is so fine that it almost looks like paper.
When you look closely you will see the letter H and the letter O constantly come back in this work. An H an O and another H banded together. This is the scientific notation of the element water. Two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.
Artists used this to create depth in the painting. But they also did it to show that they were very good at painting different tex