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Heather Marusiak | Immortal Coil, 2024

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Heather Marusiak | Immortal Coil, 2024
Heather Marusiak | Manhattan, Kansas
Immortal Coil, 2024
Cherry, ash, copper, pyrography, acrylic paint
4.9 x 4.9 x 3.5 inches | 12.4 x 12.4 x 8.9 cm

This ouroboros is an object of meditation, a spherical adaptation of a traditional Cretan labyrinth. As the snake devours its tail, it perishes, yet its body is provided the sustenance for its rebirth. Tracing our fingers along the hills and valleys of the coils is symbolic of our journey through existence and invites us to quiet our minds and attune focus on the cyclic nature of life, death, and rebirth. This labrysphere is filled with copper beads that lend weight, shift balance, and gently rattle as it is rotated in one’s hand.

Heather is drawn to the primal beauty of nature. Inspired by ancient fossils found in her home in the Flint Hills, she connects with the ground underfoot and is reminded of her small place in this world. Accordingly, she creates sculptures that combine the familiar forms, textures, and colors she observes. Her ultimate goal is to evoke the same enigmatic feelings she has when pondering the primordial landscape: curiosity, awe, reverence, and perhaps a little fear of the unknown. She believes wood, with its lived history, is an intriguing sculptural medium because it imbues work with warmth and a unique combination of strength and fragility, regardless of how the surface is carved, textured, or colored. She aims for her work to feel animate, to be at once worldly and other-worldly, to illustrate the interconnectedness between the physical and spiritual realms.

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