Back in the studio after what seems to me like a long abscence. Completed four new pieces. Will write more about the process soon.
Back in the studio after what seems to me like a long abscence. Completed four new pieces. Will write more about the process soon.
“The Leaving and the Left” is a study in hope and heartache, set in brown and yellow metal and glass. Carefully placed in each one are scripted love notes and emotionally detached e-mails, snippets of love and loss
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Rusty metal, worn wood, decayed wires. Love, when it first sparks, burns hot. Love needs heat to form, just as metal does, and glass. If the fire burns too hot, it burns itself out. When allowed to cool, it forms a solid recognizable thing that is affected by the ravages of time, and becomes more beautiful as it is exposed to the elements.
The Leaving and the Left – A Celebration of Love and Loss, the newest project by Marc Moss, aims to to disassemble language in an attempt to rebuild it again, using new understandings, insights and lifelessons. Built with rusty metal, bits of telephone wire, scrap glass and old tatters of love letters and emails, this collection explores collective memory in a celebration of what once was, what is, and what is yet to come.
Initially, I had intended to use snippets of old love letters, juxtaposed with after-the-breakup letters to illustrate that love and sadness can exist in the same space, although maybe in different time continuums. Acknowledging and honoring both disparate feelings is important. Attempting to replace love with hate isn’t truly possible or healthy.
A. Elaine Jewelry, Wicked Woman Finery & The Art Hang Up’s 5th Annual Open House
November 21st-23rd 2008
Friday Gallery Night
Meet all of the artists!
Posted: November 20th, 2008 ˑ
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