Frenzy
The previous post was the watercolor - Gentle Eyes of Wisdom, by Gloria Garrity. I posted that one first because it was my earliest recollection of Mom painting ... it was finished in 1963, but I remember sitting there watching her work. I remember being proud of Mom at a very early age, I'll never forget Mom and Dad's friends coming over and seeing this (and Aunt Martha and Uncle Marty and family) ... this wall mount - about 5 feet in height, 4 feet wide, ... it was a ceramic firing of St. Francis of Assisi holding a bird, the ceramic was mounted to a deep brown wood frame and it nearly covered half the wall.
The previous watercolor, Gentle Eyes, somewhat resembles the ceramic firing, the face, holding the bird. Nature, religion or deep held beliefs are often at the center of Mom's work.
This one - Frenzy, was made during the 1970's, Mom and I would sit and discuss environmental degradation ... we didn't live far from a factory, Solvay Process, a part of Allied Chemical Corp. and seeing those smoke stacks as a kid left a deep impression on me (hopefully not in my lungs too). Anyway, Frenzy is a lino-cut, the artist uses a cutting tool to dig deeply into a linoleum block (much easier than when Mom first started carving into actual wood blocks). Ink is then applied to the block. Rice paper is carefully placed over the inked block, and what comes back is a negative image. This one depicts environmental pollution, it's round like a globe and the swirling images are of ... birds and fish? ... fighting, struggling in a swirling frenzy ....
posted by Unknown @ 8:41 AM
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