WS-116
Other Oglesbee images, WS95-7 2004 and WS-96 2004
recall the Shroud of Turin.
Julie Taymor���s favorite image,
WS-65 2001 summons the
Demon Barber of Fleet Street
in Sweeney Todd: within
her office it was present
as the cover image for the
screenplay of The Tempest.
The archsurreal image, WS13 1995, chosen by Eastman
House for their permanent
collection, would enthrall
Dali and Teilhard du Chardin.
Three hands surround a
seemingly floating stone,
the latter surreal, the former,
set just above the center of
the image, evokes Chardin���s
belief that God is at the heart
of the matter, in stones and
minerals, as much as in the
soul. However much these
images might have occurred
by chance and/or design, the
visual results are pregnant with
metaphor and meaning.
HYLAND
