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From the November 2020 issue
In my mind, I\u2019ve been turning over and over Claire Curneen\u2019s series of sculptures based on the story of Daphne from Greek mythology. These flower- and branch-bedecked figures reprise the story of an attempted rape: Daphne, a dryad, attracted the erotic attention of Apollo, who attempted to rape her. At the moment Apollo seizes her, Daphne\u2019s father transforms her into a laurel tree. What I keep thinking about is the contrast, the dichotomy between the factual rigidity of Curneen\u2019s porcelain and its contradictory visual softness and ductility. The way she makes this stiff material seem to soften and flow evokes the transformation from something mineral to something half human\/half botanical.<\/p>\n
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.26.5″][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.5″][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.5″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/aboutToHappen.jpg” title_text=”aboutToHappen” _builder_version=”4.9.0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.5″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.9.0″] From the November 2020 issueIn my mind, I\u2019ve been turning over and over Claire Curneen\u2019s series of sculptures based on the story of Daphne from Greek mythology. These flower- and branch-bedecked figures reprise the story of an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clairecurneen.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}