Artwork Details
- Title
- In the Mountains
- Artist
- Date
- 2001
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 2 1⁄2 x 3 1⁄4 x 1 3⁄4 in. (6.2 x 8.2 x 4.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Linda and Donald Schlenger and museum purchase through the Renwick Acquisitions Fund
- Mediums Description
- fabricated, hollow-formed, soldered, cut, and inlaid 18k and 22k gold, chrysoprase, lapis lazuli, red coral, blue chalcedony, black jade, and petrified palm
- Classifications
- Object Number
- 2002.27
Artwork Description
Kim Rawdin’s design for In the Mountains came from the aerial perspective in mythological Dreamtime paintings by Australia’s Aborigines. The pure colors of the polished stones evoke the immensity of Ayer’s Rock, the Australian sky and sea, and the resilient grasses and trees of the inland plains. The poem stamped on the inside of the bracelet---as brief as a Japanese haiku---clarifies the artist’s emotional interpretation of the land:
I MOMENTARILY STOP
AND SEE MYSELF
UNKNOWN AND UNDEFINED
FREE FROM THE MOVIES . . .