Pat   Otto         Anatomical   Objects     1991 - 1994

Fragments


Ghost Scapula Breastbone Side View Heart Opening Foot Base Blood Letting Open Heart Female Urogenital System

Coccyx Seeing Eye Pelvic Girdle Stomach Organ of Generation Protector Spermatozoon

Ovum Wounded Healer Brain Matter Spleen Umbilical Kidney Mates


Ritual Drinking Vessels


Heart Ritual Drinking Vessel Penis Ritual Drinking Vessel Brain Ritual Drinking Vessel


Stomach Ritual Drinking Vessel Vaginal Ritual Drinking Vessel Sacrum Ritual Drinking Vessel


Reliquaries


Canopic Jar - Skull Canopic Jar - Ibis Canopic Jar - Dog Canopic Jar - Egg Funerary Urn



Zen Bones Cradle Reliquary Closed Egg Reliquaries




ANATOMICAL OBJECTS
Statement

Fragments: These egg tempera paintings are intimate, hand-held, icon-like fragments
that explore a fascination with human anatomical systems and structures.
They are painted on shards of fired clay.


Ritual Drinking Vessels first came after seeing pre-Columbian sculptures of drinking vessels
at museums. They reminded me of the heart with its main vessels coming out of the “top”
and the idea of ritual, honoring, "art-ifying" the organs.


Reliquaries continue with the fascination of anatomical structures and their timelessness,
from the internal structure of bones to the eternal symbolism of canopic jars.


All anatomical objects have their basis in clay.





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