Medusa

A nearly seven-foot-long sculpture made of rope, cordage, and string hangs, suspended from the ceiling. At its largest width, it is twenty inches across, but its shape is irregular and three-dimensional. The object’s texture appears simultaneously rough and sensuously smooth, creating movement and dynamism that lends the sculpture an almost lifelike, organic feel. Its color palette of muted greens, blues, purples, and pinks is natural and earthy, like moss or seaweed, with a glossy sheen that conveys fluidity. The sculpture is made up of thick, sturdy ropes — like those one might use to tie a boat to a dock — that weave and wrap together with thinner threads. It is impossible to tell where one rope begins and another ends. At its top, the sculpture is knotted, narrow, and tight. It gradually widens and narrows again, ending in a taper of tendrils that reach toward the ground like tentacles. Some cling closely to the object’s mass, while others dangle, twisted and curled.