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urethane and styrene foam, steel, strobe light,
acrylic paint, motor
5 X 12 feet diameter
Courtesy: artist |
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IThis work frankly displays the horror felt by the artist himself
when he approached 40. The birthday cake that celebrates that event
is transfigured into a horrible face. It is the head of Medusa who
turns those in her sight to stone. The cake candles become Medusa's
snake hair. Although the model for the face of Medusa is not the artist
himself, we can say at least that his feelings seem to be projected
on it. The ambiguity of the image of the phenomenon of birth and death
is often used by the artist as in "Mother May I" and "Cake Walk".
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