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Virginia Graybill (cover) // Lindsey Fyfe // Jahzmin Walker // Meghan McGuire // Sean McGuire
Cotemporary No. 3 : Mirror
Cotemporary No. 2 : Litany
Cotemporary No. 1 : Growth
Label : The Dead Pearl Diver, Benjamin Paul Akers, 1858
Day With(out) Art // World AIDS Day 2019
This piece of white marble was formed deep below the surface of the earth, over the course of millennia. In 1858, Benjamin Paul Akers transformed the slab into The Dead Pearl Diver. Over a hundred years later, his sculpture is still here. Paradoxically, Akers used the durable material of stone to represent his subject’s fragility and mortality. Stone memorials and graves have a similar dual symbolism. Not every life lost to AIDS is commemorated in stone, but A Day With(out) Art and World AIDS Day can also remind us of both life and death, permanence and impermanence, endurance and loss.
My ‘Label’ series allows me to experiment with label formats for objects from collections around the world. At maximum 100 words each, they function as mini-essays about a single aspect of an artwork, artifact, or specimen.
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