Artwork Details
- Title
- The Listening Point
- Artist
- Date
- 1999
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 25 3⁄8 x 20 3⁄8 x 4 in. (64.6 x 51.7 x 10.3 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the James Renwick Alliance
- Mediums Description
- photosensitive cast glass and black pate de verre
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure group
- Dress — accessory — scarf
- Japanese
- Dress — costume — mask
- Architecture Exterior — detail — stairs
- Object Number
- 1999.38
Artwork Description
Mary Van Cline took a cultural exchange residency in Japan in 1987. Inspired by Buddhist temple architecture and Japanese theater, she began to construct theater sets and narratives within her photos. The Listening Point depicts a scene outside the Kyoto Temple in which Van Cline has arranged draped figures to suggest yin and yang, the Chinese principle of universal opposites.