Fallen Tree Branch with Stage Five Decay - Anselm Kiefer’s Dilemma

2022, Archival Coloured Pencil Drawing on Paper - 12" x 15.5" (30.5cm x 39.4cm)

We don't know why we are here.

We don't know where we are going.

We have the intellect to try to find out, but we cannot.

It's quite desperate."

- Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is an important German artist who uses the tragic events of history (he grew up among the ashes of the second world war) along with ancestral mythologies as inspiration to explore themes of life, death, and our connection to the cosmos within his art.