Artwork Details
- Title
- Lapstrake I
- Artist
- Date
- 1980
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 28 x 36 x 8 in.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alton and Emily Steiner
- Mediums Description
- Georgia gray granite
- Classifications
- Object Number
- 2002.82
Artwork Description
The word lapstrake means "overlapping" or "not flush." In Lapstrake I, Jesús Moroles wanted to "bring the quarry into the gallery" by making a single block of granite look like many pieces of stone uneasily balanced atop one another. To "make the stone important," Moroles preserved a sense of the rock's original form and character, rather than carve the material to look like another object or an abstract form (Adlmann, Moroles, 2003).