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Karl von Orb - Artist in Berlin, Germany

Black Carousel (When Depression Comes, Things Go Round)

2020

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Title

Black Carousel (When Depression Comes, Things Go Round)

Year

2020

Material

Digital rendering

Description

The carousel turns without promise.
Movement continues, but no progression follows.

What once signified joy and anticipation is reduced to a closed system of repetition. Color is withdrawn, not as negation, but as exhaustion. The ride does not collapse. It persists, circling, functioning, enduring.

Depression appears here not as stillness, but as motion without horizon.
A cycle in which continuity replaces meaning, and going on becomes the only remaining action.