Emma Kunz

Emma Kunz (1892-1963) was a Swiss healer and so-called "outsider artist," meaning that she was never classically trained. Her inspiration to create came primarily from the concept of spiritual evolution: the idea that the mind can experience evolution in a similar way to the body, evolving from a form controlled by nature to one controlled by the spiritual or divine. Kunz never intended her work to be seen as objects of art, and never dated or titled any of her drawings (the titles used in this exhibition were given to the works by the Emma Kunz Center, founded after her death). She instead saw her pieces as a means of structuring philosophical, scientific, and spiritual ideas that could be experienced in multiple dimensions, spaces that could be entered and unfolded or collapsed back down again.