a Fork and Tendril

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2019

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mixed media

15 x 12 x 2 in

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The succinct, poetic pairing of two small relic objects is a gesture towards remembering an ancestor.

 

Her hair and the fork she ate with makes death and desire highly visible.  Her hair does not decay with the passing of time, it only become more brilliant.  The fork she ate with reminds me of her absent mouth and her insatiable desire.  Paired side-by-side, her hair and the fork she ate with are about proximity: proximity of swept-back hair to the wide-open eating mouth, proximity of hair turning white to the day of one’s death, proximity of the living to those who pass on.  

 

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