"The moonness of silver creates an electrifying elegance and transient softness. In this embrace, the reflection of silver is both balance and filter, allowing insight into who we are and what we feel. It is through this silver lense that we understand calmness, purity and essence"
Eduardo Terranova
Eduardo Terranova
36"x36", hand extruded plaster and silver plating process on jute sacks.
Fragmentation is bits and pieces of memory. The process of reading, voicing or reciting a story, a tail or a poem, relies on word by word. Each letter is a fragment of a word, and a word becomes a fragment of a phase or paragraph. In turn, the paragraph relies on the totality or a “whole” to understand the work. When removing one or more letters from a word or words from a paragraph the work starts losing its identity and purpose. The works in my new series bring to light this fragmentation that tends to be more amorphous each time as if floating in cyberspace, no shape, no direction. Inspired by Sappho, the archaic Greek lyric poet, her “fragments” poems is much left to the imagination. My intent is that each work becomes “whole” in its visual expression and passes from fragmentary to whole, starting a new visual cycle of life.
Eduardo Terranova, Death of a Poet, 60"X60", hand stitching and silver chromium on canvas.
“Death of a Poet” took six months of hand stitching the destroyed surface. I usually do the hand stitching in churches and synagogues in my neighborhood.
Lots of blood on my fingers, a dozen broken industrial needles, miles and miles of thread and many sleepless nights, plus,
two months of metal plating: copper, zinc, chrome and silver. Each layer achieves a higher degree of reflectivity on the surface and a little magic.
The title is an allegory to those that have departed before us. To those that never had a chance to say good-by to the love ones and to those whose dogs and children still waiting at home, asking.
Note: the objects, colors and shapes on the surface are mirrored due to the silver layers on the work.
The Other Side of the MOon
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