1984-005A
No.: 1984 - 005A-B-C
Title: ''The Pact.''
Size: 52 cm. X 13 cm. X 33 cm. (Approximately)
Materials: Hammered copper, a stone wrapped in tin, stained glass, parchment paper.
Category: --
Note: No
Comments and / or explanation:
***** (This sculpture is a collaboration between Monique and Marie-Claire R., a friend.) (Ref. Bio. Page: 1231 ''File: Collaboration with Marie-Claire.'')
***** (The following is an excerpt from a text in which Monique speaks of the sculpture.) (Ref. Bio. Page: 1268.)
...''The is also the imperatives of ‘’internal time'' that does not allow me to move ''faster than the violin'' and unfortunately the song of the violin is not finished at the time when it is necessary to present it to you.
2 – The ''object'' that comes from our work, although three-dimensional, etc.., for me does not, in the strict sense of the term, represent what a sculpture is supposed to be , although I do not in any way excluded it.
This is what might be described in naming it as a: ''Object-of-power''.
This doesn't imply very much variation in the criteria of ‘‘aesthetic’’,
but to know this, might more accurately facilitate for you the correlation of the ''plastic'' criteria’s purely American
to their equivalence more clearly... European ... I do not like this
designation of ''European'' because I know very well that the ‘’formal’’ hegemony, under which all our territories (from Tierra del Fuego to those of Greenland) must express them selves, is not the fact and not the consensus of all countries of Europe, far from it! ...''
***** (Here is the text included in the sculpture: ''I, OKWAO NIWASA, reveal today the sacred NAME by which you are to be named. You, Marie to Clara to Claire. NOW it will be WRITTEN that you're MARIE-CADI,''child bearer of fertile land.''
This happens the first day of the year 1985, so that the secret pact of childhood, now revealed, is now, today like tomorrow, UNDERSTOUD and KNOWN.
May the invisible be visible: may the former secret be SACRED forever.
By the GIFT of the copper object, unvarnished and without artifice, TOUCH and MODELED by your hand, Cadi recognise her CONSCIENT agreement in this ritual. By the GIFT of the WHITE feather and the stone of white marble, tinned, not sculptured nor carved, OKWAO asks on us the Protection of the Force: may our heart have the lightness of the feather in the wind and that our souls have the density and weight of metal and stone.
From now on, Vamonos!
May nothing separates the sisters united by the blood pact.'')
***** (Last note: Monique and Marie-Claire ‘‘pricked’’ their fingertip with a pin and each applied on the text one drop of blood as a signature. (This is the ''spot'' you notice at the bottom of the text) ... They hesitated and laughed a lot before pricking them selves ... I even offered them to take them to the hospital, to the emergency room if things went wrong ... In response to my offer, they went from giggling to outright hilarity ... I changed my offer ... to suggest instead that I take them to the psychiatric ward ...
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Title: ''The Pact.''
Size: 52 cm. X 13 cm. X 33 cm. (Approximately)
Materials: Hammered copper, a stone wrapped in tin, stained glass, parchment paper.
Category: --
Note: No
Comments and / or explanation:
***** (This sculpture is a collaboration between Monique and Marie-Claire R., a friend.) (Ref. Bio. Page: 1231 ''File: Collaboration with Marie-Claire.'')
***** (The following is an excerpt from a text in which Monique speaks of the sculpture.) (Ref. Bio. Page: 1268.)
...''The is also the imperatives of ‘’internal time'' that does not allow me to move ''faster than the violin'' and unfortunately the song of the violin is not finished at the time when it is necessary to present it to you.
2 – The ''object'' that comes from our work, although three-dimensional, etc.., for me does not, in the strict sense of the term, represent what a sculpture is supposed to be , although I do not in any way excluded it.
This is what might be described in naming it as a: ''Object-of-power''.
This doesn't imply very much variation in the criteria of ‘‘aesthetic’’,
but to know this, might more accurately facilitate for you the correlation of the ''plastic'' criteria’s purely American
to their equivalence more clearly... European ... I do not like this
designation of ''European'' because I know very well that the ‘’formal’’ hegemony, under which all our territories (from Tierra del Fuego to those of Greenland) must express them selves, is not the fact and not the consensus of all countries of Europe, far from it! ...''
***** (Here is the text included in the sculpture: ''I, OKWAO NIWASA, reveal today the sacred NAME by which you are to be named. You, Marie to Clara to Claire. NOW it will be WRITTEN that you're MARIE-CADI,''child bearer of fertile land.''
This happens the first day of the year 1985, so that the secret pact of childhood, now revealed, is now, today like tomorrow, UNDERSTOUD and KNOWN.
May the invisible be visible: may the former secret be SACRED forever.
By the GIFT of the copper object, unvarnished and without artifice, TOUCH and MODELED by your hand, Cadi recognise her CONSCIENT agreement in this ritual. By the GIFT of the WHITE feather and the stone of white marble, tinned, not sculptured nor carved, OKWAO asks on us the Protection of the Force: may our heart have the lightness of the feather in the wind and that our souls have the density and weight of metal and stone.
From now on, Vamonos!
May nothing separates the sisters united by the blood pact.'')
***** (Last note: Monique and Marie-Claire ‘‘pricked’’ their fingertip with a pin and each applied on the text one drop of blood as a signature. (This is the ''spot'' you notice at the bottom of the text) ... They hesitated and laughed a lot before pricking them selves ... I even offered them to take them to the hospital, to the emergency room if things went wrong ... In response to my offer, they went from giggling to outright hilarity ... I changed my offer ... to suggest instead that I take them to the psychiatric ward ...
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