Angels at the window

Eva Hesse

 It is funny how things collide in ones life.  

April is always the month - in April 2002 I was introduced to Eva Hesse’s artwork by a dear friend Ron Jehu in San Francisco.  There was a fantastic exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  We spent a blissful afternoon examining and falling under the spell of the delicate and fragile works - each one revealing ethereal beauty as the materials disintegrated, dissolved and aged and in some cases became more translucent and in others more opaque. Hesse’s constructions and drawings possess a kind of humanity. There is life in her materials.  At some point I was aware that tears were running from my eyes. 

Ron passed away in April 2007. We corresponded during those last difficult months and often wrote about Eva Hesse’s work - As Ron became more ill and began his own private transition her art became a metaphor for the changes he was experiencing. Powerful and fragile.

Thank you Rachel for posting the photograph.  The beauty of her work still makes me cry.