By the Time You Cut Teeth You Are Already Ancient
No Different Moments, 2018/2019, graphite on Arches, 8 1/2 feet x 4 1/2 feet
Cornelius Commenced a Clearing, (to be reworked) 2020, graphite on Arches, 8 1/2 feet x 4 1/2 feet
Saving Salvo, graphite on Arches, 4'X8', 2019
Otzi (to be reworked) 2020, graphite on Arches, 4 1/2 feet by 8 1/2 feet
From the Vents and Seeps, 2019, mixed media on Arches, 22"X30"
Grandmother Jesus, 2020, mixed media on Arches, 22"X30"
Ichor Clot, 2020, mixed media on Arches, 22"X30"
Crypto Colleen, 2019, mixed media on Arches, 22"X30"
The King is I, 2018, graphite on Arches, 18"X24"
Lot's Wife, 2018, graphite on Arches, 22"X30"
Lot's Wife, detail, 2018, graphite on Arches, 22 1/2"X30'
All at Once
While traveling in Ireland,
I saw the Cliffs of Moher.
I saw Killarney Lakes so blue.
I kissed the feet of Oscar Wilde and
donned his holey t-shirt.
I saw my mother
although I knew it was my father.
She was alive.
She was floating in the Liffey.
I saw my husband beheaded.
I raised an aqua vitae and swallowed a star.
I searched, and became, a dress of saffron.
It hid my child - no dress - a saint was he!
But off the cliff we were pushed willy
nilly.
I hung with pirates.
They left me their name.
(And I’ve been hanging ever since.)
I’m back in Prussia.
It is Pennsylvania.
We Neanderthals
will see
what we saw in 1972.
MDM 2018
Through a multi-disciplinary art practice as device for the compression of time, I hope to squish out pottery shards, striations on kerf walls, circuitry, breath...
Maria Driscoll McMahon
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