NYAB Event - Ruth Hardinger "Reverse Counter"

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At Washington Square Windows
Media: Painting, Sculpture

Cast concrete blocks are bound up with knotted and coiled rope to become a pendulous, free-falling sculpture. Shadowed passages punctuate the perforated cement beads tracing their starry paths along the walls. These planar patterns are then echoed in the fluid and gentle wobbles of a neighboring watercolor. Two and three-dimensional realms are now intriguingly fastened together with a visual linkage of continuous line.

Hardinger ropes, binds, and suspends concrete beaded blocks that take precipitous shape from the counterbalance of their weighty interconnected parts. "Although this work clearly stands in abstraction, it has something in common with a nautical necklace or an offering bundle. Further associations ... to the ancient Mayan calendar (the long count), to the precession of the earth's axis, and to drawing connections to create constellations, are other possibilities. A process-in-progress, this installation offers a window into the way illusion, shadow and reality reciprocate."

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