TABLE INTIMACIES
ArtSpace Raleigh 2-31 May 2014
Statement:
A table is an ordinary object. Powerful stories are built on bedrock
ordinary.
Economic engineers today use the “kitchen table” as a metaphor to
refer to the personal household economies of daily life. Without those personal
efforts all of their engineering would be moot.
The dinner table, the banquet table, the conference table….all are
sets and stages for stories. The stories I want to bring to the table are
those of unheralded labor – the patient toil of flax and cotton harvesters, the
skill of the weaver, the woodworker, the artistry of designers, and the
never-ending care and labor of those who are responsible for the food on the
table.
My collaborator in this exhibit is a worm (actually lots of them),
Eisenia Fetida, the red wriggler.
Beneath our feet is a universe of soil. Microcosms of flora and
fauna tend to the richness of life. Their daily labor goes mostly unheralded. Ordinary as dirt.
Ann Corley Silverman
Sacred Table -
Table and Cloth -
process…..
Breakfast with Cantalope - more images and information about this piece can be found in another blog entry in 2013. Situating Food - Food for Thought
Souls of Plants - the brown 'lace' of the tree form is cantaloupe rind after worms had been working.
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