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Cyrano’s Brother
20.5” x 12.75” x 9” – 2000
Category: Human Condition
A wooden paint-encrusted palette is hinged to a shallow wooden box.
Inside the box is a carved wood face with a cow’s horn affixed to
the forehead.
Meaning:
Cyrano de Bergerac is the play by Edmond Rostand about a real
French soldier, expert swordsman, and possessor of an extremely long
nose. In the play, Cyrano serves as the spokesman of the suitor
Christian, who was pursuing Roxanne.
In creating Cyrano’s Brother, I was
thinking about many metaphorical meanings of the cow’s horn in the
sculpture.
*horn = 1900’s cowboy slang = to horn in=to butt in
*jazz wind instrument = trumpet
*horn – penile erection- also called a hard-on, which can mean an
aggressive attitude
I was also thinking about Cyrano’s
swordsmanship and his “rapier” wit or tongue. The paint-encrusted
palette represents a facade. |
