RELICARIO
RELICARO/RELIQUARY 2014
Relicario/Reliquary is a series of photographs of handmade figurines, fabricated in plaster, wax, clay, paper, wood, and metal. Inspiration for the work draws from the idealized male form in western art history. Some muscular, some emaciated, all moving in classical gestures, the figurines were formed, then degraded, fragmented, and broken. Against the art historical ideal of the male hero, this work is a meditation on masculine vulnerability, embodiment, and fragility.
“Wax and clay figurines
Fallen monuments or lifeless marionettes?
Broken little shards, cracked
Statues in heat
Frozen, relics, indexed under glass
Grandeur against decline
Decline vanquishes”
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