Untitled Document

Salome and Herodias
(The Mother of the Bride)
Ink on Paper (15" x 11")
2001

A kind of free fantasia of line, form and symbols; mother and daughter, dreams and reflections of dreams, roses, wings and a dance of quasi-erotic, sinuous lines. Carrigan states this work (and “Five Cellos and a Tenor”) to be a free response to pieces of music she was listening to when she created the drawing. The work is also a virtuoso piece in that is virtually created out of a single shape, a flowing crescent like cell, which is transformed and varied to create almost every element in the drawing.

— Robert Kameczura

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