Zoomorphs

UK artist Cat Vitebsky’s active, gestural bronzes, cast from wax, feathers, and grasses, blur the lines between human and animal forms in Zoomorphs. Inspiration comes from sources in Modernist work, Greek Mythology and her experiences traveling with her anthropologist father to the remote regions of Siberia where he studied the migrating Eveny Reindeer People. He notes: “Heavily clad in Reindeer skins, riding reindeer, in snowy blizzards on mountain passes, human and animal seemed one.”  Like the winged Daedalus and Icarus, who flew through the air, the Eveny believe that reindeer, too, fly to the sun to purify human souls for the afterworld.

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