Elizabeth Lopez
Spinning Through Life – Ashes
Installation
2020
(human participant, plus) flour/wood ash mixture spread on floor nine-inch tall portraiture top - cast aluminium, spun with ash wood launcher and string.
Tops are 9 inch tall, flour footprint is approx. 5 ft diameter circle
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Allegorical markings of our lives as we start fast, travel through life and eventually stop moving. A durational participatory work, spinning cast metal portraiture tops (based on facial profiles) on scattered ground powders. Each spin leaves a track behind, eventually obliterated by subsequent spins, or a sweeping up at the end of the day.
“For this floor based installation, I experimented with a variety of flours, to mimic the fine powder of cremains, effectively capturing the curls of the tops spins on the wooden floor. I enjoy the idea that perhaps some of the sand or flour from the installations will adhere to people’s shoes and in that manner, track out of the gallery and into the street, leaving traces in the wider venue of the city.”
Work by
Elizabeth Lopez
interdisciplinary
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