Replication Meditation II: Star Stuff, was created by Caroline Kern while doing a six week artist residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY during the spring of 2024.
This is the second part of a series where I have been exploring my life living with Long Covid. I spent a lot of time while at my residency working out the design of this project, which folds out in several ways to create different shapes and patterns. I thought a lot about cosmic time and what it means to be a chronically ill person on this planet. It is a lot about acceptance of larger themes of life, death, illness, pain, etc. There is an accompanying booklet that has text that delves more into some of my thoughts, which you can also read in one of the photographs.
This project debuted at the 2024 NY Art Book Fair. -Publisher