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‘Above the Mundane’-‘Something for the Soul’ (View from the top)

'Above the Mundane' top view

(Hemlock wood, Oil + Plexi-Glass, 79cm x 30.5cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2013) Top View-you can also see the Plexi-Glass base and the reflection it gives.

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Above the Mundane (Hemlock wood, Oil + Plexi-Glass, 79cm x 30.5cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

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This object is made from an old weathered hemlock log, the end of which I painted red. After a few years I cut 3 inches off the end of this very old log and then cut out 13 ‘year rings’

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La Gloriosa or “Glorious,Decaying Empire” (Douglas Fir, wood glue, wood oil, 227.5cm x 28cm x 18cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

La Gloriosa_front view

(full frontal view) *This was a big slice of Douglas Fir which first I turned into a perfect rectangular “block”. The newly created “block” had the “Golden Rectangle” shape or the ‘divine proportions/dimensions’. Then I wildly started to cut the

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La Gloriosa (Douglas Fir,wood glue, 227.5cm x 28cm x 18cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

La Gloriosa_semi side

This was a block of Douglas fir that i cut up. The block had the “Golden Rectangle” dimension. This pic shows the semi-side view and was photographed on my work patio.

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Very Deep (–photographed on patio with sunlight–Oak,plywood,enamel+resin,42.7cm x 68.7cm x 19.7cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)

Very Deep 2

The rectangle is a “Golden Rectangle”,i.e.:it has ‘perfect dimensions’

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Very Deep Wall Object (Oak,plywood,enamel+resin,42.7cm x 68.7cm x 19.7cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)

Very Deep
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Vertigo (Oil on wood panel and recycled Fir-wood built into a frame, 52.5cm x 60,2cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

VERTIGO 1

This painting features the “Golden Rectangle”. It’s the one that has the ‘red outline’ in the centre. The idea for this painting/object came to me after visiting some people who had paintings up on the wall which were sort of

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SPEED SIMPLIFIED (Oil on wood panel, 50.5cm x 45.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)

Speed Simplified new
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KAU-BOI (Ink and oil on Japan-paper, 32cm x 23.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)

Kau-Boi NEW

KAU-BOI on acid.

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Golden Section

Golden Section

(Oil on recycled paper mounted on plywood with coloured string, 44.5cm x 72cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

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