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The title, Hung Out To Die 2010, is a play on words to describe kiln fired and partially assembled handmade white ceramic doll body parts and unfinished ceramic baseballs. They are randomly placed in transparent sacks. Each sack is hung from the crossbar of the rack with a piece of clothesline. Dolls appeared in the Near East as early as 6500 BC, as fired and unfired clay figurines, fetishes and toys. Dolls have been found in cultures worldwide for centuries; they are intrinsic to mankind. The baseballs provide an additional contemporary note. The anthropomorphic white doll body parts and baseballs signify a union of the past, the present and future. The ephemeral shadows cast within each bundle, and the repetition of bundles link tangible and intangible associations. The bundles enhance and expand the metaphorical space surrounding them. These suspended ghostly white bundles allude to the universal cyclical nature of life and death. They are a metaphor for remnants of broken lives, broken toys, and unfulfilled promise, whether from politics, strife, wars, human intervention or natural disasters; things that go to the core of our existence.
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