Burntworks & Collage

 

In the mid 1970's Kaish began exploring the medium of collage:

I cut, burned, tore and adhered, layers of material. I began with landforms, attempting to fuse in them both the solidity of sculptural masses and the light which would ultimately fill my need for the sense of mystery and awe, as the innate human response to nature...I like to think of these landscape collages as brief poems, as worlds in themselves, where through the very smallness of the window, we can glimpse the stars of the universe.
— Luise Kaish

Monadnock I, 1976

Untitled (MacDowell), 1976

Monadnock IV

Hanging Orb (After Japan Trip), 1976

Poet in Two Worlds (Deep Space), 1975

Layers and Levels, 1980

Mistaya, 1979-1981

H. H. H., 1981

Aspen, 1981

Burntworks 14, 1978-82

Ink and String on Canvas, 1976-85

Glacier Bay II, 1983-84