Painted plaster with hemp, various dimensions.
Wave Hill, Bronx, New York.
Invited by Wave Hill to create a site-specific sculpture for the exhibition, Hybrids, I found inspiration from the architectural detailing inside and outside the buildings at Wave Hill, and their relation to the surrounding trees and landscape.
I made rubber molds capturing some of these details, such as the oak leaf and acorn pattern around the fireplace and the pineapple-like form over the doorways in the Glyndor Gallery. The sculptures in this installation incorporate almost all the ornamentation from the room in which they exist. The head is approximately five feet long, excluding the “hair.” There is a wall piece, and 28 small acorn-heads. All the components are made from plaster and hemp, the same materials used for historical, as well as modern, decorative molding.
The large acorn-head and the wall piece are painted the same white as the gallery’s molding emphasizing their unity with the architecture. The head appears to have broken away from the wall ornament and is launched toward a particular window. Small acorn-heads, in earth tones, are crowded at this window about to escape to the gigantic oak (Quercus rubra) with its “real” acorns just outside.
For further information about the exhibition, Hybrids: http://www.wavehill.org/Arts/Glyndor_Gallery/glyndor_gallery.html
