 |
 |
The Galleries at Moore
Pat Ward Williams Virtual Tour:
Sibling Rivalry 1987 cyanotype prints, windowframe with attached toys, text, 12" x 38"
|
 |
Text from A Narrative Chronology by Moira Roth Italicized text by Pat Ward Williams |
zoom in
The meaning of the imagery is immediately clear. Anyone with brothers and sisters knows the toy tally taken on gift-giving holidays. The addition of hers and mine to the traditional Christmas snapshot (Let me take your photograph under the tree ) evokes feelings of territoriality familiar enough to laugh at. These snapshots, with only apparent changes in time, suggest the sustaining of a ritual and
evoke a feeling of calm. The windowframes suggest a feeling that is at once playful and nasty [1987].
|
|