Maria Driscoll McMahon

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      • Chthonian Devonian Day
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      • With Calving Iceberg
      • Burdocks Project
      • Too Soon For Dinosaurs
      • Frost Hollow
      • Drawing and Collage
      • Color
      • Sculpture
      • Flush Rush
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  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Chthonian Devonian Day
    • Great Red Spot
    • Deity Dentata
    • Salt in Orion
    • Already Ancient
    • Spit
  • Exhibitions
  • Artist Statement
  • Archives
    • With Calving Iceberg
    • Burdocks Project
    • Too Soon For Dinosaurs
    • Frost Hollow
    • Drawing and Collage
    • Color
    • Sculpture
    • Flush Rush
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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

Cornelious Commenced a Clearning

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'

By the Time You Cut Teeth You Are Already Ancient

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... 



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