"We only move into the 21st century on the foundation of things that have been established long, long ago."
"Elephant" (1995)
"Elephant," 1995
Birch tree, fiberglass resin, steel, woven copper wire, duct tubing, plant materials, and water, approximately 50 x 50 x 50 feet. Installation view: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
© Judy Pfaff
Birch tree, fiberglass resin, steel, woven copper wire, duct tubing, plant materials, and water, approximately 50 x 50 x 50 feet. Installation view: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
© Judy Pfaff
"The trouble with naming anything . . . I called a piece once ‘Elephant’, from the story where there are seven blind men and they’re trying to describe what they’re touching and everyone has a different idea- it’s a tree, it’s a snake, it’s a this, it’s a that, it’s soft, it’s hard . . . So the piece was called ‘Elephant’ and everybody kept saying, ‘Where’s the elephant?’ It’s like, ‘Oh geez.' So you can’t name anything anything."
- Judy Pfaff
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