Jenny Sages

8 Slowly this future receded from human beings; faith and superstition pushed it into ever greater remoteness, love and doubt threw it above the stars and into the heavens. Our lamps have finally become far-sighted, our instruments reach beyond tomorrow and the day after, with the methods of research we extract coming centuries from the future and make them into a kind of not - yet - begun present. Science has unfolded like a long road with no discernible end; the hard and painful progress of mankind, both of individuals and the masses, fills the coming millennia like some endless, laborious task. And far, far beyond all that lies the home of works of art, those strangely secretive and patient objects, which have their existence among the things of every-day use, among busy human beings, working beasts and playing children.” Samtliche Werke in zwolf Banden, x Jenny Sages 1998 - 2018 I am the old and the new 2018 encaustic & pigment on board 39.5 x 9 cm