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a simultaneous falling apart and coming together

february 2022 ~ anna leonowens gallery

exhibition statement

The right half of the exhibition in a white walled gallery, a variety of mixed media sculptural works are in frame. The title "a simultaneous falling apart and coming together" is in the foreground to the right, written surrounded by dripping wrust pigment on the white wall.

the left half of the exhibition with a variety of sculptural works and one blurred video on a screen in frame.

A detail shot of this installation showing the tops of two plinths, off-white and cracked/crumbling, with irregularly shaped off-white clay boxes stacked on top

A detail of the top of a crackled plinth with a few irregular clay boxes on top, along with two small wildflower seed pouches (one open and one closed)

the rubble of broken clay boxes at the feet of the plinths.

A full view of the installation, showing the two plinths (with shadows cast in opposite directions), the clay boxes on top and the rubble beneath.

made to be broken

unfired white stoneware clay, rust dust, cotton string, natural dyed muslin, tissue paper, ink, wildflower seed mix

menorah
unfired porcelain paper clay, steel wire, rust dyed cheesecloth, beeswax, cotton string

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creation of atom

steel wool, sheet scraps, and wire

a messy cast of two hands in dripped yellow beeswax cupping burnt matches on a white shelf coated in white clay slip

untitled (self portrait)
beeswax (previously spilled, scraped off floor, and then cast), burnt matches, white clay slip on shelf

roots trailing down off of a white shelf onto an ox yoke. The shelf has an irregularly shaped yellow beeswax candle on it.

a yellow dipped beeswax candle that looks like a tree, in a oxidized metal canle holder accompanied by a cone candle snuffer of the same material. The shelf its on is stained with oxidized steel and copper pigments (orange and blue). The shelf has roots descending from it.

controlled burn / olly olly oxen free

antique ox yoke, found rusted metal, tree roots, beeswax, cotton string, antique candle holder and candle snuffer

long twisted rope horse reins unravelling, attached to an old bridle bit

wild beast (goodbye horsemen)

antique bridle bit, sisal rope

(de)construct

42 second clip from 34 minute video, performance/assemblage with rusted metal

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dissent/descent

handmade cattail seed paper, rusted nails

heavy
Antique mechanical scale, bird bones and feathers, seed pouches, rope and bark fibres, steel wool

we can make more time
beeswax, cotton string, forged and found nails, antique ink pot

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as the story unravels

antique photo album interleaving, watercolour, canvas

photo documentation by Britt Moore-Shirley

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