Coss_M 2012 Blood and Water

Name/Title

Coss_M 2012 Blood and Water

Artwork Details

Medium

Steel rod , textile, light and sound

Made/Created

Artist

Mary Coss

Date made

2012

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

8 in

Depth

8 in

Dimension Notes

9’x8’x8

Provenance

Notes

Private collection. Sound is housed at this link: https://soundcloud.com/marycoss/blood-and-water

General Notes

Note Type

Exhibited

Note

Alki 9/6/12- 9/7/12 Alki waterfront at the Alki bathhouse, Burien 9/8/12 a lantern in Arts a Glo, Burien’s annual Lantern Festival. Shoreline 9/11/12- 9/15/12 partially funded by the Shoreline Arts Commission as part of the SummerSet Community Arts Festival, where it floated for a week on a raft for the celebration.;METHOD Gallery sneak peek opening 5/2013 Museum of sound 8/9/13-8/11/13 for Nature Consortium’s Arts in Nature Festival. Bellevue 6/23/14- 10/14/14 afloat on the pond at Bellevue’s Downtown Park, as part of Bellwether, Bellevue’s Biennial Sculpture Exhibition. finalist for the 8th Annual Arte Laguna Artprize at the Venice Arsenale in 2014. Artist Trust Auction 3/6/15

Note

I plotted the emigrant points of my ancestors and found a commonality with generations of family living near water. This discovery inspired the abstracted shell form, a poem and the soundtrack: poem spoken in 4 voices reflecting my countries of origin, with the sound of waves crashing. finalist for the 8th Annual Arte Laguna Artprize at the Venice Arsenale in 2014. Artist Trust Auction 3/6/15