STUDIES BY DANIELLE KOSANN

Danielle Kosann creates studies the way some people keep journals: to give form to feeling, to make the invisible visible. Recently, the subject has been wonder, specifically the kind children possess naturally before adulthood strips it away. A trip to Paris brought this into sharp focus: the simultaneous recognition of intense beauty and the awareness of how rarely we allow ourselves to pause within it.As she prepares for her next body of work, a quote from Baudelaire echoes in her mind: "As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life." Studies become containers for these contradictions, exploring them separately before discovering how they might coexist in finished paintings. Through dreamlike scenes of leisure and rest, Kosann renders ordinary moments with an intensity that captures our imagination, shaking us from our adult slumber and offering a glimpse of the world experienced anew.