writ on silken seas

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A lacuna is the space occupied by an ellipsis. The pregnant pause marked by three dots.

Written on silken seas is a sculpture tribute to the labor of waiting. Hand-dyed silk stretched over bamboo rods and smocked with sewing pins to make an irregular (binary) pattern on the surface. Next to the growing pile of framed silk are more materials, more silk, more bamboo, pins glitter in a wooden bowl.  As a “performance in stasis” the maker is not present, it’s not clear if the work is being made or disassembled. The labor of writing and the labor of waiting coexist in my retelling of the story of Penelope weaving and unweaving her cloth while hoping for the safe return of Odysseus—perpetual rewritten love letters never sent, edited and re-edited ad nauseam.

Erin Curry Art "Writ on the Silken Sea" sculpture of smocked blue silk

Written on Silken Seas 
Indigo-dyed silk, bamboo spars, sewing pins, string, and wooden bowl,
2013 

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