Miss Havisham's Cake
plaster and various found media
19" x 12"
July 2012
$300
Reference: "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
(chapter eleven, paragraph ninety nine)
Quote: Miss Havisham talking to Pip
"On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay" stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table but not touching it, "was brought here.
It and I have worn away together. The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me."
Artists’ Comment:
Baking a plaster wedding cake - especially one housing mice and festooned with cobwebs - was a bit outside our metier. On-the-other-hand, all of our sculptural work in steel and concrete is experimental so trying our hands at shaping plaster rosettes was a fun learning experience. If a new piece, in whatever material, doesn't promise edification we don't bother. But we have yet to find a medium we can despise. Cardboard in the manner of rusted steel is our current intrigue. Can Jello be next....?