Anne Irving "A Hollow of Reticence Cannot Enclose the Smoke"

3"h 6.5"w 1/2"d

paper, carbon, 1200º heat. 2023

In a glowing hot state, the graphite pupa is enclosed in a book. Its topology is captured in the pages. Its form is described chronologically. But carbon dioxide and water vapor escape the bounds of this description.

Artist: Anne Irving combines jewelry techniques and unconventional natural materials to study the cyclical systems of birth, transformation and death. She commonly uses imagery and the body of the moth, featuring the insect in states of metamorphosis, maturity and death.