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Honoring the sacredness of water to our existence, Water’s Scrins are a series of vertical sculptures in the tradition of Inuit stone totems, pre-historic European menhirs and anthropomorphic stelae. Standing stones sculptures echo these ‘communal signposts’. Scrin, an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘a secure container’ (which held writing) evolved into our modern English words of script (scripture) and shrine.
“In her most recent work, Mallory has drawn inspiration from
the vertical stone configurations created by primeval civilizations
to visually communicate important information to community
members. Her stacked “standing stones,” in form and content,
echo the Inuit inukshuk stone totems, European menhirs and
anthropomorphic stelae. An ancient Anglo-Saxon term, scrin,
(which evolved into the modern English words “script” and “shrine”)
meaning “a secure container protecting sacred writing,” further
informed her thinking. These two seemingly divergent ideas
synthesized in her most recent sculpture, Water’s Scrin, in which
the upright pieces bear the imprints of “the writing of water” on its
surfaces, thereby implying the “sacredness” of the life-sustaining
liquid. The inherent beauty of the overlapping celadon and white
porcelain glaze flows holds the moment of “water’s writing” as
both visual message and arresting aesthetic.”
—Jane King Hession, arts writer and author of
Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959 |
