Katharina Sieverding: En Face World Line

Katharina Sieverding: WELTLINIE #9 A/D/A process, each 100 x 100 cm
courtesy Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne

 Katharina Sieverding, Weltlinie, 1999 A/D/A Process, each 190 x 125 cm
courtesy Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne

 Katharina Sieverding, Weltlinie #1, 1999 A/D/A Process, each 190 x 125 cm
courtesy Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne

 Katharina Sieverding, Weltlinie #2, 1999 A/D/A Process, each 190 x 125 cm

courtesy Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne 

(please click on each fragment for the full image)

The face speaks. It speaks, it is in this that it renders possible and begins all discourse.... 
The first word of the face is the “Thou shalt not kill.” 

-Levinas

 A world line: A special type of curve
in space-time. Each point of a world line
an event marked as barcode
Date time expiration SKU number almost forgot that

Polaroid hangover: photobooth mixagraphia made that contrast
Cured it to a ripe selection by one or another hair of another, my other, the curve
of my-story when I was in the nineties;
Follicles disorder the petri dish: if curved, could only grow effluvia,
pixels, plexis or else, Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, mayhem, mass hate,
Digital-insensate eliminates, fields of kills.
Twenty year kills, so throw a curve on it, go check the contrast,
Intensify the chroma, spit out of photoshop, slide into baths,
carmine garance acetone alizarin anthrazine alliterate at last
attention deficit disorder, analog digital analog,  the face
of another commandment, love one another--

christina mcphee en face katherina sieverding / october 2011

upon encountering  her photo-based work at Art Platform Los Angeles / special thanks to Christian Lethert