The Red Shield is worked from the red shields series. It is standing upright, casually leaning against a pole. As a thing that is not armature or shell, it reflects on our uprightness, opposes our sense of being – superior. The Red Shield grounds us and makes us wonder how we relate to inhuman things, it makes us wonder about the nature of objects and our relation to form as a presence that seems to be familiar, but rests unknown.
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Commissioned for the Scotia Festival of Music, September 2002 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Bronze, patinated, 59” x 55” x 5” (160 x 150 x 15 cm)
» see also "Red Shields" and "White Shield"
June 2007 – Copyright Vanessa Paschakarnis
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