Elsbeth Ciesluk's work often contains enigmatic texts that occur to the artist in the silence of a calm night, or during the repetitive process of working on her woodcuts. She uses these texts as stand-alone typographic images, but also incorporates some of the words alongside geometric shapes into layered, horizontal compositions. The latter are in turn reminiscent of the structure in dance and musical notation for a choreography or partiture.
The texts that are both very direct and mysterious; they express a sense of wonder, but also deal with the struggle with the world’s imperfections