Everyday Is Like Sunday, 2005
Porcelain
20 x 8 inches
Edition of 3
Copyright The Artist
The toile pattern on the ax was taken from curtains my mother hung in our bathroom when I was a child. The original ax belonged to my mother's father, given...
The toile pattern on the ax was taken from curtains my mother hung in our bathroom when I was a child. The original ax belonged to my mother's father, given to me by my uncle not long before he died. I made a plaster mold from the original ax, cast the ax in porcelain and fired the toile pattern onto the porcelain from decals made from a digital scan of the original curtains. The tool, a double bitted ax, at one time innovative and designed to chop trees down at an ever quickening pace is rendered useless, a fragile object, a work of art embodying three generations. The sculpture was conceptualized with multiple unrevealed personal narratives in mind during it's making.