The European Dark Ages do not haunt a hearty strain of the contemporary imagination for its wars, famines, dreads and superstitions, but for its irrational certainties. Good and evil were as concrete in the world as a horse in a pasture, a baby crying in a house or a woman drowned in a well. By casting its shadow on the brightest of days, evil affirmed its presence. The struggle against it was constant, and risks extended into eternity.
What did that world look like?
Claire Cowie‘s The Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth continues at Gage Academy through Saturday.
Death has always stalked Claire Cowie’s paintings and sculptures, but lately she’s taken it in and given it a furnished room in the parallel universe she’s been building for years.
WOW – this is one of my favorite bodies of work by Claire. Stunning.