STEPHANIE GARON
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PicturePelt: steel, Pine needles (24"x18"x10")
 
 My own interpretation of Meret Oppenheim’s definitive work, Object, is Pelt. A two-  piece steel armature curves like a road or body part which then gets covered with a  blanket  of pine needles. It’s soft, rounded, and highly tactile. It invites you in to touch  or smell, a 4D experience, to imagine with it. I used materials that were at my feet. The  layers rely on the steel for form and balance. The skewed, sloppy direction of the  needles replicate real placement on the forest floor, or hair on skin. This epidermis  changes color with time, sheds, and thickens at parts. It personifies nature as woman  and captures the dichotomy of permanence and impermanence. 

"Garon employs decaying natural artifacts primarily as symbols of humanity's fragility. But her contrasts of hard and soft intrigue the eye as well as the mind." -Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
  • Sculpture
    • Gold Rush: Mine Cores
  • Installation
  • Public
    • Land Art
    • Performance/Dance
  • Drawings
  • Poetry
    • Acreage
    • Yellow Arrow >
      • Land Reckoning
      • Abandon
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