Spark #2 Manuela Karin Knaut stacking areas of pure color

stacking areas of pure color atop gestural brush marks and geometric forms

She works with multiple layers and colors

a familiar song from the popular 1937 Walt Disney movie “Snow White”

In reference to wave breakers in harbours

The arrangement and number of these squares is determined purely by the process itself

Spark #2 Manuela Karin Knaut stacking areas of pure colorThe threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a transparency is created that allows the viewer to enter through the lines onto the painted surface. The titles of each series can be interpreted as emotional, psychological and physical conditions.