Miriam Cahn's "mir selber fremd 25. 1. 05 schnell weg! 17. 4. 05" is an oil on canvas work that incorporates the artist's characteristic gestural abstraction with inscribed text in German, translating roughly to "strange to myself" and "quick away!" The dated notations suggest the work's creation across multiple sessions, a practice central to Cahn's process of layering meaning through temporal markers. The painting exemplifies her approach to abstraction as a vehicle for expressing psychological states and personal reflection through both visual and linguistic elements.