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      • Hierarchy Sweaters
      • Guadinche
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MERCEDES GERTZ

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  • HOME
  • About Mercedes
  • On Going Projects
    • Happiest Day of My Life
    • Polar Bear Blues
    • Stained Dress
    • Stained Wall at SPARC
    • A Dream for a Dream
    • Nymphas Dissolutio
    • Hierarchy Sweaters
    • Guadinche
  • Women's Salon LA
    • Salon LA
    • Box Project
    • Red Book Project
  • Past Projects
    • Past Projects - 2002-2008
    • Past Projects - 1986-1999
  • Workshops
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NYMPHAS DISSOLUTIO

(The Bride Revisited) has been an ongoing process, which successfully marries both form and content. It is a deconstruction of something, which has been lost, and an acknowledgement of that which is broken. From far away, the work appears as circles and flowers forming a fantastic garden, but upon closer inspection, they are revealed to be mandalas: ancient Buddhist and Hindu circular symbols. The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung referred to them as “representations of the self.” These mandalas take form as a blooming construction, similar to the unfolding petals of a flower, and are configured entirely of repeated fragmented images of failed brides.  This project began when Mercedes Gertz visited a recently divorced friend -- she had referred to her old wedding photographs as “the most beautiful pieces of trash”. This began a 17-year odyssey where Gertz began collecting her now divorced friends and acquaintances discarded bridal portraits.

FIRST GENERATION

First generation mandalas from 2012 – 2018 in collaboration with artist, Nancy Louise Jones

SECOND GENERATION

Second generation mandalas from 2019 – 2021 in collaboration with SPARC and Echo Theohar.


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