The Other Oeuvre: allegorical

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March 23, 2019

Eris with the Apple of Discord - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

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Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers

Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers
2018, terracotta

The precious fruit poised in her hand, she turns, watching for her moment; heavy cloak clutched tightly across her side but right arm lightly lifted to aim. Her eyes glow with a sudden spark…
In Greek legend, Eris – Discord – stirred by mischief, secretly brings a golden apple inscribed “To the Fairest” with her to a wedding feast on Mount Olympus, and, at the height of the revels, tosses it into the midst of the celebrating deities. The treasure, claimed and counter-claimed by the most powerful goddesses of the Grecian theogony, causes a quarrel which wreaks havoc on the serenity of the divine abode, and this squabble in its turn causes the grief and pain of the Trojan War among mortals far below.
I have never been able to feel that the gravity of the results could place a greater responsibility Eris than on the other mightier beings that took the conflict so much farther; and her playful objectivity (after all, the apple could have remained hers) gives a certain sympathy to her place in the myth. So I chose this subject in spite of its mischievous, almost militant, nature, as I saw in it the possibility to capture a form I've long wanted to investigate; a sculptural moment that is both the height of action and a point of stillness and suspended motion. Her hand is just at that transition where the impetus will be imparted to the fruit, which will fly from her a fraction of a second later; and in the expression of her wide eyes and slightly parted lips, you can see her thoughts as she both anticipates the result of her deed and already sees it completed in her mind.
And there is in this sculpture simply the abrupt glimpse of action conceived and taken, perhaps if abstracted into that one fragment of time, a thing that held the good of its own movement and beauty.

Eris, Sarah Myers
detail from below

Eris with the Apple of Discord
impressionistic detail of hand

Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers
sculpture from back

Eris, Sarah Myers
detail of face

Eris with the Apple of Discord, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta

May 10, 2016

Summer - Art in cut paper and charcoal by Sarah Myers

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Summer, Sarah Myers
Charcoal, cut paper

Pomegranates, palm-fronds, jasmine stars, grapes and various flowers wreathe around the head of a personification of Summer. A charcoal drawing with cut paper ornamentation of brown, black and white.

Summer, detail
Sarah Myers

May 17, 2015

Spring - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

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Spring, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in red earthenware, life-scale

Here is the Spring, smiling, with wreaths of lavish flowers in her hair... Nestled in the blooms, small faces look up, just awakened or still half asleep.

This sculpture is in fired red earthenware and is large life-scale. It was created rapidly, during about four days' worth of sculpting, to avoid damage from drying; it is hollow-built. The material is a new earthenware clay of splendid texture and tint; I worked it up it from a formula designed by Amy Myers.

The style is essentially "New Baroque", used to express exhilaration and joy in the new world of spring. Search carefully for the small faces of the flowers!

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Spring, Sarah Myers

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Detail, Spring, Face of a Flower
Sarah Myers

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Spring, Sarah Myers

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Spring, Detail, Face of a Flower
Sarah Myers

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Spring, Detail, Hibiscus
Sarah Myers

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Spring, Detail, Face of a Flower
Sarah Myers

Spring, Sarah Myers
Side

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Spring, Detail, Face of a Flower-bud
Sarah Myers

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Spring, Sarah Myers
Back

May 11, 2015

Plenty - Drawing in Charcoal and White Conte

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Plenty
Sarah Myers, charcoal and white conte on grayscale paper

Allegorical portait, "Plenty", with wheat, grapes, loaves of bread and vine-leaves. This drawing is in charcoal and white conte on medium grayscale paper.

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Plenty, detail

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Plenty
Detail, basket

May 10, 2015

Inspiration, Drawing in White Conte

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Inspiration
Sarah Myers, white conte on near-black grayscale paper

In white conte touched with charcoal - Inspiration and a harp...

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Inspiration, detail
Sarah Myers

May 9, 2015

Face of Peace - Charcoal Drawing

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The Face of Peace
Sarah Myers, Charcoal and Conte on Grayscale Paper

Olive branches, a dove with outspread wings, and the face of Peace.

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Face of Peace, detail
Sarah Myers, charcoal on paper

February 1, 2013

Drawing, Head of a Woman

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Head of a Woman, Allegorical Figure, S. Myers Charcoal and Conte on Paper 2013

This drawing is inspired by several early Botticelli paintings I sat looking at the night before last.

It was so enjoyable to stare at the book, at those pictures, submerged in their vast world of renewed Spring; to turn the pencil loose and watch it dance over the paper, the sound of Pablo Casals' cello all the time being background - a recording played very softly so as not to wake sleepers in the house.