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| Head of a Woman, Sarah Myers |
Sometimes an artwork contains more than its creative or intellectual history - as in this sculpture, where a wholly unexpected event, an explosion in the kiln, left marks unintended in the original form. It still seems odd to think of so tranquil a personage flying apart while surrounded by white-hot coils three times the temperature of a baking-oven; but such was the case.
As she now stands she is not only the outcome of creation and catastrophe but also some gentle remedying. Several days ago I placed the two largest pieces back together as best I could. Though some chips and ceramic splinters remain missing, as they had pulverized, she now appears much as she was first intended; a peaceful, heart-shaped face, the tilted head poised on a long, graceful neck. Half-classical, half modern; and now, with the fracture lines of her mishap - where no mending could conceal the warp produced by a fire of 1260 degrees celsius – perhaps a little post-modern as well.
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| Head of a Woman, Sarah Myers Front, close-up |
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| Head of a Woman, Sarah Myers Sculpture in stoneware |
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| Head of a Woman, detail. Sarah Myers |
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| Head of a Woman, sculpture Sarah Myers |
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| Head of a Woman, Sarah Myers |
