M.C.CAROLYN
Alabaster Series
"Ancient Mask/Face/Hand" "3 in 1"
ARTIST’S
STATEMENT
One
hand and one face have the ability to say just about anything.
I want to discover in stone if this was possible.
This alabaster series begins simply with that concept of form leading to
……..
But
then the stone begins to force me to go deeper/farther.
I am able to join the face and side of the hand in the first sculpture.
Its statement is enigmatic. The
second sculpture stone demands that I address the strong colored banding.
Suddenly as I move around the stone a second face emerges.
The stone is forcing me to reconsider.
The
third alabaster stone has strong dark blood red streaks in it.
As I place the head supported by a strong simple hand, the head becomes a
baby-like mask and the red becomes the blood of birth.
In
the fourth sculpture the face/head has disappeared and only an ancient mask
remains. Close to the mask, which
is inverted, is a small primitive face. The
hand, which has been so prominent in the earlier sculpture, has become a pecked
outline of a hand (my daughter’s) similar to pre-historic hands found in cave
paintings and sacred sites.
The fifth sculpture, “3 in 1”, also is a simple mask that fills 2 of the 4 stone surfaces (faces in stone language). But as I carve and move around the stone, 2 imprints of faces appear. The hand has completely disappeared. The occupants of the mask fill all the space left in the stone. Eyeholes are interconnected allowing light to flow from face to face to mask.
The sixth sculpture, "Yes, he did", deviates from the initial theme and explores the emotions of a woman who has been impregnated and the strong male response. The alternate title for this sculpture is "On who's petard?"
Form
and color truly lead me to new understandings of what I had thought was a simple
concept.
M.C.CAROLYN © 2007