Uddrivelsen af Paradiset 1915 - 1924

Gudrun Traustedt made *Uddrivelsen af Paradiset* – that’s ‘Expulsion from Paradise’ in English – with ink on paper. The brown ink has a delicate, tentative quality, almost as though Traustedt is feeling her way through the story. There’s a real sense of process; of the artist thinking through the act of making marks. See how the strokes around the figures of Adam and Eve are fainter, more searching? As though Traustedt is trying to capture something fleeting, a moment of loss, of change. The drawing is full of these ambiguities. Is that a tree of knowledge or a storm cloud looming above them? Are they sheltering or being pushed out? It reminds me of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s explorations of motherhood and the female form. Both artists share that interest in the intimate and the personal. It is a reminder that art isn’t about fixed answers, but about embracing the questions.