Ladder

Her work defies literal translation: drawing on a diverse range of subject matter from physics to poetry. Huntbach weaves evocative and unsettling images, which explore the world metaphysically. The work combines beauty and pathos to produce dense and poetic images redolent of the fantastic and tinged with funerary grace. Characters, both animal and human, revolve in decorous ceremony and utter isolation, characters caught out of time. Spaces appear uncanny, removed from familar context.

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“In a world from which the harsh strains of capitalism have removed thought and reflection, a poet who can stimulate a sense of the eternal and of death into consciousness is the true rebel” -Edward Said