ANN MALLORY

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

COOL BREEZE, DRY CANYON

PATIENT RHYTHMS

RAIN KNOWLEDGE

CLOUD OFFERINGS

SONG OF THE FALLS

LAUGHING RIVER RUNNING

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  COOL BREEZE, DRY CANYON

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  Water's Scrin #2, standing stone sculpture, 80"x16"x4", high-fired ceramic
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  PATIENT RHYTHMS

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  Water's Scrin #1, standing stone sculpture, 78”x16”x6”, high-fired ceramic
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  RAIN KNOWLEDGE

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  ALM 249 - RAIN KNOWLEDGE, Water's Scrin #3, 80"x12" x 8"
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  CLOUD OFFERINGS

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  ALM 261 - CLOUD OFFERINGS Water's Scrin #4 , 83"H x 12" x 8"
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  SONG OF THE FALLS

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  ALM 270 - SONG OF THE FALLS, Water's Scrin #5, 80" x 16" x 5"
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  LAUGHING RIVER RUNNING

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  ALM 321 - LAUGHING RIVER RUNNING, Water’s Scrin #6, 90”x15”x5”