The "Bells" are knee-high, round objects that relate in their form to petrified shells that are to be found in Nova Scotia. I worked with shell forms in recent pieces like "Winged Beings".
Transformed through metal into hollow objects with specific cut out holes, they will be like organs, volumes with a center, bodies that resonate sound through their volume. Through these qualities they will open up for an investigation that relates to our own body, makes us aware of a form that is a void, a container that resonates and relates to ourselves as resonating containers.
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Bell I: Maquette for Bronze Cast
hydrocal over wire, pigment; 84cm x 60cm x 48cm;
Bell II (Golden Bell): Maquette for Bronze Cast
hydrocal over wire, pigment; 132cm x 88cm x 77cm
» see also "Black Bell"
June 2007 – Copyright Vanessa Paschakarnis
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