| Maker(s): | Gillespie, Gregory Joseph
| | Culture: | American (1936 - 2000)
| | Title: | Meditations on the Seed
| | Date Made: | 1986
| | Type: | Drawing
| | Materials: | Encaustic, crayon, ink, collage and watercolor on paperboard
| | Place Made: | United States
| | Measurements: | sheet: 15 1/2 in x 15 11/16 in; 39.4 cm x 39.8 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | signature and date in black crayon at lower center: Gillespie 86
| | Accession Number: | SC 2012.1.11
| | Credit Line: | Gift of The Pokross Art Collection, donated in accordance with the wishes of Muriel Kohn Pokross, class of 1934 by her children, Joan Pokross Curhan, class of 1959, William R. Pokross and David R. Pokross Jr. in loving memory of their parents, Muriel Kohn Pokross, class of 1934 and David R. Pokross
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
two cartoon-like figures looking at a split piece of fruit set on a flower printed pillow with a flower attached to it
Label Text:
Meditations on the Seed, a work of which other versions exist, is a particularly layered and complex work. Gillespie takes the viewer on an existential quest, writing the question right onto his work: “What is in the pit?”
The pit in question is rendered as many things at once: a vagina, a halved peach, or the core of some strange feminized fruit from which a tropical plant hatches. The two strange figures, male and female, that hover over the object seem equally alien, yet uncomfortably quaint at the same time, emphasized by the colorful patterned tablecloth. The pale male figure seems to have an almost invisible insect or bird hovering over his eyes. Peeking at the lower left of the work we find a small face, one eye staring directly at the viewer.
Tags:
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