Contemporary Art
Schwartz Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection
Vivienne Koorland
(South African, born 1957)
Dark Poem Painting (What I Call You When I Think About You and You Are Not There), 2005
Vivienne Koorland, Dark Poem Painting (What I Call You When I Think About You and You Are Not There), 2005, oil on stitched canvas. 48 x 44 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
“[B]oth my painting and the poem reference my favorite subjects: dream, whimsy, language, narrative, absence/presence, trace, memory, imprint. The present moment, but it is infused with the trajectory of time. And of course, longing and the violence of loss.”—Vivienne Koorland