The Crown Monsters - Through an Arc
Alice Aycock American
Not on view
This preparatory diagram for Aycock’s multimedia construction Pig of Knowledge (1984, collection of the artist) is drawn from multiple sources, including scientific theories, the industrial environment, literature, and cybernetics. The sharply delineated and isolated forms derive from images of a particle accelerator, a McCormick reaper, the structure of the inner ear, and drawings of the cosmos by a seventeenth-century mystic, suggesting Aycock’s continued fascination with systems and structures. Her interest in the complex interrelationship between science and magic, particularly the alchemical, permeates the work, reminding us that monsters, too, are the products of such fantastical thinking.
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