- Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo
- Kin/Kindred, 2020
- Mixed media
- 50 x 19.5 x 29 in (127.0 x 49.53 x 73.66 cm)
- Inv: 2025.17.1
Full media: Saw dust, wood glue, fencing, foam, quartz crystal, epoxy clay, alcohol ink, acrylic paint, found items including: concrete block, coquina shells, naturally shed pig hairs, deer skull, alligator garfish scales, old nails from flipped houses, human hair, coral, shells, barnacles, rocks, sand, tarantula
Kin/Kindred was exhibited at South Arts as Cornejo was the 2022 Tennessee Fellow and Southern Prize Finalist. In exhibition’s digital publication, the artist states:
"This sculpture uses hairs along the spine and old nails around the front to keep the viewer at a distance so it can be observed, but on the sculpture’s terms. It seemingly exists in a far enough away future that it's been left alone with crystal slowly forming around it, like the great caves such as Lechuguilla, which are altered realms out of our human-made environment. They have been allowed to build up silently, creating phenomenal spaces outside of human touch. Humans can’t go in them without compromising the space, so we have to contend with the fact that their existence is directly tied to our lack of interaction with them. The inability to have or do something exceedingly frustrates humans. In the end, the sculpture symbolizes a slow coming together of believed detritus to make a being that’s made up of mostly dead material that exists as a relic, a possibility, or a warning."
- Subject Matter: Abstract
- Attribution: Gift of the Artist
- Collections: Davidson College Alumni, Recent Acquisitions 2024-2025, Sculpture & Relief