Terry Kreiter: Wellhead Blowout, April 20, 2010

Artists Responding to the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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Image from Oil and Water: The Face of loss, a project by Terri Garland
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Gulfport Miss. shrimp boats idle at the height of the 2010 shrimp season
Diane Kreiter

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Title: Wellhead Blowout 2010, Terry Kreiter
Dims: 22 x 10 x 8 inches
Medium: Unique cast and fabricated bronze, cast by the artist
Supporting material: Terry Kreiter Sketchbook #25

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Drawing from sketchbook #25 This was the primary drawing used, it holds all of the notes and ideas, along with some casting details.

Artist Note: I wanted to have some imagery showing through the surface of the fish. I wanted it to reflect in the fish scales; I think this idea came from my irresistible draw to the last paragraph in the Cormac McCarthy novel, The Road. I was aided in this process by using the molds I made from a Michael Gourd, Mayan glyph stone.
(refer to the Aztec Bird-Fish post)
"Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery." Cormac McCarthy The Road