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Title
Peter Tilley and the garden of death
Author/Creator
Hopcroft, Helen
Description
An egg carved from a horse's thighbone. An oldfashioned glass vial dusty with powdered bone. Tiny bird wing bones arranged in a careful spiral. Memories of a lost figure blasted against a wall like a nuclear shadow. A small table piled with neat pyramids of pomegranates, offerings to unknown gods or lost friends. A solitary rowing boat, without oars or sailor, drifting on a featureless sea at the end of the world. The imagery of Australian sculptor Peter Tilley hovers continuously between life and death, hope and fury, despair and atonement. Like an eternal Day of Judgement, each sculpture seems to repeatedly plead for answers: Am I worthy? What happens when I die? Will you keep your side of the bargain? What can I do to protect myself?
Relation
Art Monthly Australia Issue 254, p. 17-19
Relation
http://www.artmonthly.org.au/article.asp?contentID=1338
Date
2012
Publisher
Art Monthly Australia
Keyword(s)
Peter Tilley;  sculptures;  funeral rites and ceremonies;  Egyptian
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/934617
Identifier
ISSN:1033-4025
Language
eng
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