Tag: bones


Janine Antoni, Graft (details), 2013, maple tree, maple table, urethane resin. Images courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine Gallery.

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Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, no. 8 of 12, from the portfolio, AnatomyState/Variant:Version 2 of 2, only state,1989-1990, lternate Title:Sexy Demeanor; The Sexy One; Slow Gait; The Gait, Drypoint, :plate: 17 × 9 15/16" (43.2 × 25.3 cm); sheet: 24 15/16 × 18 1/16" (63.4 × 45.8 cm), Peter Blum Edition, New York, Harlan & Weaver, New York

Womanhouse, Garden Jungle, Paula Longendyke

I chose animals as my subject matter because I identify with the quality of vulnerability in animals.  In this world they are weak, unprotected; they can easily relate to this state of existence.  I wanted to deal specifically with prehistoric animals…dead skeletal forms.  The picture I want to create is of walking through a dimly lit, remote jungle about 50 million years ago, discovering large pearly white bones of magnificent creatures.  The skeletons lie there exposed, open, sad.  Strange tropical plant life offsets the browns of old decaying plants.  In the evening, the jungle is quiet with the exception of a trickling waterfall.

– Paula Longendyke