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Mixed Media by Liesl Pfeffer titled "Let me put it another way" - 1.

Let me put it another way Liesl Pfeffer

$3,960

Inspired by marine signal flags used to communicate at great distances while at sea, Liesl's tapestry works are an investigation in language and personal symbology. Read more

Materials Machine pieced and hand quilted cotton
56.25 x 36.25 x 0.38

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Three years after moving to Germany, I am more or less fluent, but there is a lingering friction in my interactions. I feel a dissonance between what I want to express and the words that come out of my mouth. I wonder if I am being too abrupt, too formal or perhaps too informal. I have come to understand the usefulness of eye contact, smiling, and gesturing with my hands. I found myself inventing my own language. It's not a language of words, but of experience translated into shapes. To find the shapes for my language I consulted the photographs and drawings I have made since I moved to Europe, this archive of things I have noticed. The works are inspired by signal flags, which are used to send signals at a distance, mostly at sea. Like signal flags, these works use simple combinations of colours and shapes to communicate complex information and messages. They are the flags for my days and months of settling into life in Europe. They are flags as journal entries, flags that I am waving, flags that say: I am listening, I am trying to be understood, I wish to communicate with you.

Liesl Pfeffer

About the Artist

Working in a range of materials, Liesl Pfeffer is interested in the act of dissecting and reconstructing in order to achieve new meaning.

News and Notables
  • Exhibited at Galleri Heike Arndt, 2022
  • Included in Illusion at Glue Gallery, 2022
  • Two-person exhibition at Tête, 2021