Unbearable lightness — Amelia Akiko Frank

Unbearable lightness

If eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness.
But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

2019. Ballpoint pen, oil pastel, graphite, and colored pencil on paper with masking tape, dowels, and string, 48"x46".

Stratigraphy, 2020. Graphite and masking tape on tracing paper, 3"x3".

Wonderful Marly helping with install inside the kiln room. 05.26.2019.

Fur Piece, 2019. Faux fur, thread, fabric, fishing line, 135" (length) x 16" (circumference).

Unbearable Lightness (a wooden anchor), 2018. Charcoal and graphite on paper and butcher paper.

Roses (process), 2019.

Roses, 2019. Graphite rubbing and yarn on paper.

Still Life II, 2020. Pen on envelope.

Still Life III, 2020. Oil pastel and graphite on paper.

Many Portraits, 2018. Acrylic on canvas with safety pins.

Still Life I, 2020. Graphite on paper, 18"x24".

Sleep 1, 2019.

Sleep 2, 2019.

Sleep 3, 2019.

2018-2020