Where Were You When the Moon Was Full?
Artist
Aldwyth
(American, born 1935) Date2001 - 2005
Mediumcollage on Okawara paper
Dimensions72 3/4 × 116 1/4 inches (184.8 × 295.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Jacqueline and Ken Sirlin, the Myrtle Jones endowment fund, the Jack W. Lindsay Acquisition Endowment Fund and other Telfair Museum of Art acquisitions endowment funds.
Object number2011.11
Copyright© Aldwyth.
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Label TextLiving on a barrier island in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Aldwyth has purposefully secluded herself from the mainstream art world. She plays with scale and abstraction, mixing organic and geometric forms and juxtaposing unlikely found materials. The result is a carefully controlled chaos bursting with references to art history, technology, encyclopedias, and marine life. Aldwyth’s self-described “thought planets” breathe and pulsate with life, as she creates movement and repetition with fish, boats, and shells layered over human eyeballs, arms, and legs in a style reminiscent of the Dada and Surrealist art movements.
