Artwork Details
- Title
- Paper Pod
- Artist
- Date
- 1995
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 13 1⁄4 x 15 3⁄4 x 15 3⁄4 in. (33.7 x 40.0 x 40.0 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor T. and Samuel J. Rosenfeld
- Mediums Description
- printed paper, wood, brass, copper, and plastic
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Abstract
- Fantasy
- Object — written matter
- Object Number
- 1997.41.2
Artwork Description
Paper Pod was created after John Garrett settled in New Mexico in 1990. The muted colors of the newsprint and architectural drawings, and the organic forms of the base and the attached pieces, are linked to Garrett's experience of the landscape around Albuquerque. He feels that the folds of brown paper and the bits of metal on twisting stems suggest the slow crumbling of adobe, the deaths of flowers in the desert, and other "metaphors for growing older" and "going through changes" ("Bridge V," 1998).