Th Rose Prblm (Hardcover)

Hardcover. A drawing in the Th Rose Prblm cuts together two drawings. Each with one of two phrases. Composing these two phrases in their various iterations: "Rose is a rose is a rose" or "a rose is a rose is a rose" with "come up smelling like roses" or "coming up smelling like a rose", etc. leads to all kinds of nonsense. But it also leads to another sense. I found a lot of humor here, some of it pretty dumb. Composing these phrases into all the possible outcomes became a metaphor for identity. There are 48 drawings and it's one work. Cumulatively the shades of meaning obtain a complexity and range that stand in for the mutable, changeable nature of identity. I also found that the more I did the more there was. Roni Horn Here, Roni Horn (born 1955) cuts together two drawings, each with one of two sentences pertaining to roses, producing poetical new phrases. There are 48 drawings in the series. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…