Merete Joelsen Aune

Reduced Observations

Reduced Observations is a survey in watercolor, documenting my own inner worlds. It is an ongoing archive inspired by astronomical observations of distant planetary nebulae and supernovae explosions. I reimagine their stormy structures as symbolic depictions of changing states, thoughts, ideas and forms within myself. 


Each work represents a universe of its own, resembling remote nebulae, novae or microcopic bacterial forms; sites of death, birth, growth and decay. 


While watercolor may be the project's main medium, I view the archive as a form that is equally diffuse and pliable, allowing the potential to merge fiction and reality. 


As both creator and curator of my own archive, the intention is to exhibit works in ever-changing combinations, forms and contexts. 


Reduced Observations takes its name from the work of 18th and 19th century astronomers William, Caroline and John Herschel, and refers to the astronomical practice of re-examining and data reduction of previously registered astronomical observations.






"Reduced Observations 07012020"
"Reduced Observations 10052020"
"Reduced Observations 17062020"
"Reduced Observations 02082019"
"Reduced Observations 22022019"
"Reduced Observations 26022020"
"Reduced Observations 12102019"
"Reduced Observations 16072020"
"Reduced Observations 04042020"
"Reduced Observations 17022020"
"Reduced Observations 28022020"
"Reduced Observations 26022020"
"Reduced Observations 24042020"
"Reduced Observations 02042019"
"Reduced Observations 06022019"
"Reduced Observations 12032020"
"Reduced Observations 07012019"
"Reduced Observations 28122019"
"Reduced Observations 14072020"
"Reduced Observations 08042020"
"Reduced Observations 26122019"
"Reduced Observations 07072019"
"Reduced Observations 09022020"
"Reduced Observations 07072019"
"Reduced Observations 14062018"
"Reduced Observations 09022020"
"Reduced Observations 12052019"
"Reduced Observations 18052019"
"Reduced Observations 28022020"
"Reduced Observations 04052020"
"Reduced Observations 03022016"
"Reduced Observations 23112019"
"Reduced Observations 17022017"
"Reduced Observations 01122016"
"Reduced Observations 08042017"
"Reduced Observations 29072018"
"Reduced Observations 14092019"
"Reduced Observations 31072018"
"Reduced Observations 28112016"
"Reduced Observations 05012020"
20072020
"Reduced Observations 01012017"
"Reduced Observations 07032020"
"Reduced Observations 09112018"
"Reduced Observations 16032020"
"Reduced Observations 24072018"
"Reduced Observations 12072020"
"Reduced Observations 26072018"
"Reduced Observations 09062019"
"Reduced Observations 19032016"
"Reduced Observations 09072018"
"Reduced Observations 18112016"
"Reduced Observations 08042020"
"Reduced Observations 30072018"
"Reduced Observations 17082016"
"Reduced Observations 16012020"

2016-

21 x 29,7 cm

Watercolor, gouache, graphite,

charcoal, colored pencil, pen, collage, date stamp and embroidery on paper

MERETE JOELSEN AUNE

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