Jurack, B., 2025.

The female surveyor (second draft)

The artist Brigitte Jurack, a native of Düsseldorf, has been living and working in Great Britain for more than thirty years. After spending several weeks in German-speaking countries in summer 2022, she published the bilingual Die Vermesserin (the female surveyor). In September 2024 whilst on an international artists' residency in Pedvale, Latvia, she wrote the second draft of Die Vermesserin in her native language, German. The second draft is published in two separate volumes, German and English and this English translation seeks to mimic the clipped 'dry' prose of the German original. The female surveyor counts, notes and connects observations at a very local level and within the context of current European and global wars, narrowmindedness and climate change.