Thomas Guber
The Self-Reflections are the last personal and philosophical thoughts of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, written during his time in military camps along the northern border of the Roman Empire.
The symbolic depiction of the themes in this 3D object encapsulates the spontaneity of life and the transience of the moment, preserved inside a cardboard box.
In Thomas Guber’s cardboard worlds, reality and fiction blend into a ‘surreal-real’ unity.
The hand-painted wooden forms, coated in oil paint, trick the eye, making them appear as if they are real cardboard boxes.
This everyday material, commonly used for packaging and shipping, is lifted from its ordinary context and imbued with a new, extraordinary value.