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Recounting

by Deborah Rael-Buckley

web # 7603

Sculpture

Ceramic, Oxies, Glazes, Acrylics and Inglaze Decals

45"h x 17"w x 14"d

Recounting, as the title suggests, explores memory and remembering. The red knotted ropes on the skirt of the figure refer to an Incan method of story telling- a form of memory. Lengths of rope were gathered together and knotted in specific ways, the order and number of knots related specific information, a kind of PreColumbian book, that could be understood and given to others to relate the information.
Here, the red knotted ropes also serves as a metaphor for a bloodline and a fabric woven together that tells of a family history. The figure's shoulder is touched by a white hand that urges the figure to look backwards in time and the cloudlike form at the left torso holds an image of a cold, wintry landscape, referring to the passing of time and the end of an era.