"I would send my Soul away from me..."
- interactive wooden marble run. Pyrography (wood burning) and acrylic accented illustrations on layered basswood cut-outs.
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21 x 12 x 2.5 in
(53.34 x 30.48 x 6.35 cm)
- $1,200
- Samantha Mullen (Soot and Stain)
Collection: Inventory
Video: https://youtu.be/VPQN_iL6J-g
I was overwhelmed with the need to build an interactive marble run upon reading The Fisherman and His Soul. I adore the morbidity and romantic lunacy of sacrificing one's soul for a dream and it was imperative that a physical representation of one's own soul by way of a shadowy marble down a track exist. I was struck by the phrase '"My Soul is nought to me," he answered. "I cannot see it. I may not touch it. I do not know it."' It felt like a dare to create a piece in direct playful affront to those assertions.
- Created: 2021
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