“The traveler roams all around and has nothing but doubts: he is unable to distinguish the features of the city, the features he keeps distinct in his mind also mingle…why then, does the city exist? What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves?” -Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
I explore a personal, political, and global narrative with use of symbolic pattern and irrational landscape. My prints carry an implied narrative of displacement and a quest to make one’s journey one’s home. Though personal in allegory, my work is essentially human as I interpret universal questions of individual and collective memory, cultural history, and natural wonder.
Kelda Martensen is a print, paper and book artist currently living in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and in Germany, Korea, Lithuania and Denmark.
I explore a personal, political, and global narrative with use of symbolic pattern and irrational landscape. My prints carry an implied narrative of displacement and a quest to make one’s journey one’s home. Though personal in allegory, my work is essentially human as I interpret universal questions of individual and collective memory, cultural history, and natural wonder.
Kelda Martensen is a print, paper and book artist currently living in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and in Germany, Korea, Lithuania and Denmark.
