Ruth West
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Counting with Pears
2000
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These artworks are about creating and recreating myth. West says: "Making art is not a straight line. An image appears on the scanner in the form of a magnificent pear, taken from someone's lunch, and a new series is born. Combined with an image of the Mona Lisa, the pear lives as a screen saver and floats in the subconscious for six months, or so. This is added to a memory of a book that found it's way into the studio years ago called Fairy Tales for Computers, an odd-ball book filled with lines from Kafka and strange verbal fragments. Prose and poetry and pear combine, and out slips "Counting with Pears."

This series is about visual myth. These pieces touch the non verbal part that comes with seeing. Each piece hovers on the edge of a story, some classic myth, that might includes the rites of spring or the dissolution of the Gods. The viewer can almost tell the tale; maybe a Greek myth? A Bible story? A Roman proverb? Several themes emerge again and again in this work; counting the number of pears in each piece, the cool marble statues and the windows that invite viewer in and also keep them out. For in this millennium West will not be rediscovering the original apple, but unwrapping the pear.
These works are sold as limited edition prints.

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