At Stanford’s Cantor museum, a bust by Giacometti was
constructed of 2 planes at right angles - shoulders and narrow head. Picasso usually slammed planes together into
2-D paintings. This is the way Venus
started: profile on bare shoulders. Then I began giving her hair with wavy,
untamed strands that shaped a 3-D head.
Then I saw Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" with her right hand
reaching up toward her throat. So I gave
my lady a hand (which incidentally, stabilized the piece), and her name: Venus
on a Bad Hair Day. She was welded
together from hand, head and shoulders by Yori: art by committee; both in ideas
and fabrication.
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| Venus's "Make Up" |
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