Painted in minute brushstrokes of remarkable precision, Hamburger's compositions leverage the ancient technique of egg tempera and the traditional genre of landscape painting to create contemporary vanitas pictures, pictures which grapple with the experience of urban decay, repair, and further decay.
For her, these sites, their paving, landscaping, and thin layers of fleeting surface improvements, symbolize our constant masking of the palimpsest of the past, and a simultaneous, insistent refusal to accept our own, inevitable disintegration.
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