Dance of the Fourth Sister
ceramical, pietra serena sandstone, cast bronze, glass, Missouri hematite, steel, aluminum & schlag leafing, spray paint, latex paint on wood panel
18¾"x 20¼"x 4¼"
This piece began as a potential collaborative work, but as the first two elements were fitted to the black cradle — the cast and carved ceramical face and the recessed pietra serena — the news came that the other artist was backing out of the collaboration. With work begun I felt I needed to continue as if I were the other collaborator. Not as if I was the specific other artist (a painter), but as a new artist responding to the work my earlier self had suggested. The other elements were added and fitted as if the cradle, face and the stone recess were givens instead of starting points — I was now collaborating with my earlier self, trying to respond the tentative or unclear first forays into form that other self had fabricated without specific intent or meaning. The piece became a fragmented dialog between the earlier me and the later me.
six detail views:
cast and carved ceramical face with paint and red glass inlay fitted into cradle
schlag metal leafed steel ripple fitted to right edge of cradle
cast bronze spill fitted to top edge of cradle, verdigris patina
glass rods and pietra serena sandstone fitted in recess of cradle
partially polished Missouri hematite fitted on cradle bottom edge, aluminum leafing
painted ⅛" mesh hardware cloth fitted to bottom right of cradle