fine ARTS 2009-2010 - The British School at Rome

Kim AndersonBody Fragment II: Eroded Strength 2009ink over graphite wall rubbing on Japanese paper, approx. 75 x 48 cmThe body is everywhere in Rome; in the museums and galleries, on the streets, the obelisks, the aqueducts and the fountains.The city itself is a living, breathing entity, an ancient being possessing the wisdom and knowledge borne out of three thousandyears of experience. It has loved and lost, been abandoned and left others behind, lived through riches and poverty, triumphs,defeats and tragedies. Its weathered surface is like a ravaged skin bearing the traces and scars of a lifetime. Fragments of stoneand marble become as broken bones and worn teeth, and glimpses of faces and figures evoke memories of a once vigorous andyouthful body now aged and weary.14Fine Arts 2009-2010