VANESSA GERMAN, BLUE BOY (The Body of Grief Makes Space and Light), 2023

VANESSA GERMAN

BLUE BOY (The Body of Grief Makes Space and Light), 2023

INGREDIENTS :
30 yards of Blue Rip Stop from the first layer of the BLUE WALK prayer skirt which walked the National Mall in August of 2023, wood, heat, grief, sorrow, a torment in the heart which accumulates in the darkening of the winter sky, porcelain tea cup, horror, porcelain monkey with a trumpet, vintage beaded French flowers, hope, lust, a cringing face in the mirror, tears, instagram at 2am when you know you need to be asleep, 12,000 images of horror, terror and destruction that just don’t go away, you know? Love, porcelain figure bust of a white woman in a hat with her hand on her cheek, ceramic flowers, the BLUES do you hear me—THE BLUES, blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue, sometimes the day hurts very badly and i struggle to make my mind close out thoughts of despair, distraction, holiness, folk art bottle cap chain, plaster, a healing to the broken heart, softness, hummingbird book ends, ceramic blue birds, ceramic dolls parts, a pair of some old man’s shoes, horror!!!!, dead bodies and people laughing at it!!!!, horror i tell you horror, blue pigment, blue lace, a blue stove pot, the sound of the artist losing her friends, mannequin hands, loneliness, yarn, wire, twine, beaded rhinestone lace, ugliness as beauty, beauty as horror, horror as an awakening, grace bursting out through the splinters of a withered heart, this bitter earth, flower candelabra, MYSTERIES, humanness, creativity, glory, 7 or 8 miracles, and a ceasefire.

53 x 32 x 20 inches
134.6 x 81.3 x 50.8 cm

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Provenance

Asheville, North Carolina, US

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