O'KEEFFE'S MOOSE
This sculpture was inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's love and concern for the animal life of North America and its overall natural environment - so marvelously portrayed in her paintings of skulls, pelvises and other animal bones as well as flowers, mountains and rocks. Although abstract, this piece characterizes what I think O'Keeffe's vision of a Moose's remains lying on a devastated landscape might've looked like. The sculpture shows the skull and pelvis of a moose (reminiscent of the artist's paintings of dead herbivora and flora: "Cow's Skull”, “Summer Days”, “Pelvis with the Distance”, “Flaying Backbone", "From the Faraway Nearby", "Pelvis with Pedernal", and "Conna Lyli"). It also depicts a Kit fox, a coyote, a bat, and a squirrel - another handful of wonderful species thriving in American territories. Finally, the carving shows a moose (legs and antlers tied up) as a reminder of our continuing assault on the American fauna. And last, but not least, the winged god of Victory "Nike of Samothrace" who so much inspired the great O'keeffe, and Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People".
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