Resilience (Original Work) by Josefina Herz
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Medium: Pencil and pastel on recycled paper
Dimensions: 40 x 55 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $750.00 USD
Status: available
A symbol of wild beauty, but also of resilience in a world that threatens to silence its presence. More than simply portraying the Bengal tiger, my artistic practice seeks to place it within a space of tension between majesty and vulnerability. Here, kraft packaging paper functions not merely as a support, but as a conceptual element that echoes the fragility of the natural environment it continues to inhabit.
Why collect this work?
A tiger’s head rises to the waterline while the support’s repeated grid interrupts its illusionistic detail, making visibility appear both forceful and precarious.
- Her statement identifies animals and the shift between recognition and abstraction as central concerns. Here, the immediately legible face is repeatedly broken by the paper’s visible pattern.
- In the photograph, the cropped muzzle sits near the centre while unequal ears and partially obscured eyes resist heraldic symmetry. Water compresses the body into a narrow threshold between emergence and disappearance.
- Catalogued as pencil and pastel on recycled paper, the work uses fine marks for fur, whiskers and reflected light. The gridded support remains conspicuous rather than functioning as a neutral ground.
- The artist describes the Bengal tiger as poised between majesty and vulnerability, with packaging paper echoing environmental fragility. The work is significant for testing that conservation claim through a clash between meticulous depiction and visibly ordinary material.
About the Artist
Josefina Herz
Josefina Herz is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Navidad, CL.
Nationality: Argentine
Animals are at the center of my practice, not only because of the emotions they evoke in me, but because they offer a powerful way to explore...
