installed at the Eden Park Building of the Art Academy of Cincinnati
+ The Civic Garden Center of Cincinnati's Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show
After considering this piece for four years myself, I decided that I needed to recreate it, and here I have.
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| Homage a Petah: installed at the Eden Park Building of the Art Academy of Cincinnati + The Civic Garden Center of Cincinnati's Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show |
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| As this site mentions in other places, a strongly influential artist to me is Art Academy alum Petah Coyne. In the early 1980s, Petah was in New York working for a hospice, sitting with patients. To deal with their passing, and news of her own illness, she began collecting and trying to preserve fish from the China Town fish markets. After five years of keeping them in her apartment, she and a group of friends hung them in trees throughout Manhattan in the winter I was born (1985). After considering this piece for four years myself, I decided that I needed to recreate it, and here I have. |
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| Eric helping hang the fish at EP in the dead of night. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kirk Mayhew and Laura Hollis at Performance Day sitting under the fish-filled trees. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| I used recycled pots of wax that made a purplish- black color, that I dipped them in, and then 'necesarily bound them up' in fabric, twine, wire, even feathers and spots of gitter. For the most part, the structure and embellishment were the same thing. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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