recreating my mother, attempt 4
HDvideo projection, 47.35 min
webversion 2.45 min
“...Once the clay legs are formed, Spierenburg places her left hand underneath the upper half of the figure again as a supporting gesture. Her other hand slowly moves around the figure; touching it gently, pausing and lingering at certain moments, before picking it up and cradling it, momentarily rocking it back and forth with a loving tenderness. As the figure’s legs hang down resembling the floppy legs of a tired child, there is a melancholic sense that the artist fully bears the weight of her mother’s ghost.”
- Celia Graham Dixon