Pyschopomps: 2021
Figures - stoneware, variously burnished, unburnished, glazed, unglazed
Bases - salvaged marble-aggregate concrete with steel inclusions, blackened steel, pentellic marble
1: Psychopomp 01S21
selectively burnished stoneware, marble aggregate concrete with steel inclusion
27.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
2: Psychopomp 02S21
selectively burnished stoneware, marble aggregate concrete
27.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
3: Psychopomp 03S21
glazed stoneware, blackened steel, Pentellic marble
27.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
4: Psychopomp 04S21
selectively burnished stoneware, marble aggregate concrete with steel inclusion
30.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
In both the ancient greek and contemporary english language the word psychopomp refers to spirit entities that guide the recently deceased to the places of the dead.
These four entities are part of a growing community of psychopomps that currently comprises approximately forty entities. Standing purposefully on individually crafted bases, these shape-shifting figures aim to evoke and embody the supernatural and the human.
