emma kunz

art EMMA KUNZ the artist as healer and drawings as magnetic forces capturing energy, vibration and flux  text and selection of artworks by HANS ULRICH ORBIST My first encounter with Emma Kunz (1892–1963), a Swiss healer, researcher, and artist, was through her healing powder Aion A — a natural remedy we used at home for a range of health benefits. I was fascinated by the idea of the artist as a healer. Kunz’s core concerns were health and well-being of body and mind, combined with a holistic worldview. She had gifts of telepathy and extra-sensory perception. In her 40s, she began practicing a form of radiesthesia — drawing onto millimeter graph paper, guided by her divining pendulum. The large-scale, highly complex, and geometric drawings are the result of an experimental process whose roots are found not in a purely aesthetic field, but within the context of spiritualism and healing. She…