Mandy Greer
Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl
October 14 - November 12, 2006
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Viewers entering Mandy Greer's installation Small But Mighty Wandering Pearl will experience the transformative powers that materials have on presenting graphic images. A Stag in his death throes bleeds to death, violently ripped open -- hundreds of feet of crocheted, beaded, stitched and knitted blood and entrails pour from his wounded flank. Our sympathy for the dying animal is overpowered by a feeling of awe and respect for the beauty of the scene. Greer's environment is exquisitely elegant, a moment frozen in which we engage with that beauty instead of turning away from the trauma, seduced by the mass of pooled blood.
Great transformations in our lives are often accompanied by a violent killing-off of old selves, and we emerge as something new, raw and exquisite. ÉI'll never forget the gush of beautiful viscera and what felt like the joyful expelling of my own internal organs when I gave birth to my son. Reading those entrails, I was a seer of an unknowable future. -- Mandy Greer
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