Mother Moon,2020

In Mother Moon, LÖBBECKE explores the theme of ‘missing’ through his personal experiences and reflections on grief. The work captures a dark time in the artist’s life as he experienced his mother’s ceaseless and seemingly inexplicable grief and constant crying as she hid her terminal illness from him; knowing he would be taking his first trip back to France at the age of 22. The loss of his mother, the absence of knowledge and understanding at this time is all explored in a series of prints from his digital drawings that flow and grow in stages. A poem accompanies these works and is used to narrate the growing digital drawing that is culminated in a 3-minute video work. This video work shows the evolution of LÖBBECKE’s digital drawing that flows with the narration and evocative imagery of his poem as it transitions and is built upon through each stage captured in the prints.The artist is preoccupied with a civil collective story that emerges from these compositions and the confluence of diverse ideas.

MOTHER MOON, by Eric Löbbecke

Mother mother moon
You’re big only when I need you

you’re sitting, in the Avenue’s green alcove An hour, or two even
I’m Watching the tears flow

Mother mother moon
“Je ne peux pas arreter le chagrin”
Too deep for me to reach in and soften it

It resides in your heart not for mine too soft you thought
Share what you have scratching The heavy, heavy load

A Dark and heavy whale

Mother mother moon
Make her come to the surface To take a breath

The ocean eases my soul seasoned in brine Untethered whale- not so heavy

Dark whale of love Dark whale of loss

Drink me the tears
Thirsty harbour of fears
I am heavy too in the whale’s stomach Carried me with accumulating time

not knowing I float Waiting for your breath

Mother moon
You should’ve let it come to the surface Much early,
Before
You became the light in the night