MARBLE PONYTAIL, ARTEMIS
Sculpture; marble, string, 26x3x3", 2020
ARTEMIS is named for the Greek goddess of chastity and nature. The sensually ambiguous Marble Ponytail is a hand-carved and hand-polished sculpture designed to be viewed 360° in the round. Each Marble Ponytail is unique.

ABOUT MARBLE PONYTAILS
The "ponytail" form first appeared on Earth not as a phallus, but as a protozoa-- unicellular, multi-sexed, parasitic organisms--not unlike our own evolutionary ancestors. The sculptures reject the psychoanalytic categorization of the ponytail form as a "phallus", and instead position the ponytail form in psychic community with ancient rites, bone, hair, protozoa, and the metaphysical dynamics of atoms in motion. Each is hand-carved, polished, and sculpted by the artist and named in honor of an ancient deity, i.e. Epona (Gaulish Goddess of Horses), Aluna (Cajun Goddess of the Moon), or Andromeda (Grecian Goddess of Dreams). By contemporarily sculpting in a prehistoric medium like stone, VLM summons sculpture's metaphysical function as a tool for funerary, fertility, and healing rites.

"Each Marble Ponytail eventually collapses under the weight of its own linear erection. This is to show that as the Marble Ponytail form evolves it becomes an arc, or succumbs to Coriolis forces of molecular motion, before its atoms find equilibrium in the position of an ovoid." — VLM

MARBLE PONYTAIL - INSTALL IMAGE
Dream Cocoon, at HESSE FLATOW, NY, NY, October 22 - November 21, 2020. 508 W. 26th St, #5G, NY, NY, 10001.


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