Rina Stutzer
Tears on Dust and Mineral Mouths Flora's Resurrection
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A break will occur between Lots 24 and 25.
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LOT 28
Rina Stutzer
Tears on Dust and Mineral Mouths Flora's Resurrection
About this Item
numbered 1/6
Notes
Kindly donated by the artist in collaboration with Everard Read Gallery.
Photo credit: Christo J. Niemandt
"The sculpture entails a life-size, mottled, light-hued Southern African Canyon Granite, a hand-carved, high-relief self-portrait with integrated cast plant material, bronze and silver 'Myrothamnus flabellifolius' (called the resurrection plant, native to Namibia and Southern Africa). The self-portrait is reflective of the sequence of catena and my Namibian and South African heritage. It engages the idea of surrendering to place and nature, grasping the relatedness of all layers of the environment (rock, mineral, soil, plant, animal) in its catena — a connected series of related things."
"My tears may water Flora’s roots, my dust may feed her mineral mouth, her rebirth may bring song to the veld, her catena may make Fuanus dance."
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