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| | X-Tra :: Volume 5, Issue 2 - Eva Hesse: Random Notes |
 | | The next stage of Eva Hesses use of careful gradations of light and dark is in the circle drawings of 1966 and 1967, where she drew perfect circles in grids, on paper, the center of the circles always darker, the edges paler. |
 | | I think Eva Hesses sculpture resonates with these experiences, the experience of being a woman artist, of being persecuted, of being abandoned by her mother, the experience of illness, but I believe she was very careful to make sure that her work did not refer to these experiences directly. |
 | | Hesses work is like Pandoras box, meanings slip and spill out of it, for which it takes no responsibility: in the eye of the beholder, things hold together, things almost fall apart. |
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