Water's
Scrin is a record of the writing
of water,
implying it’s essential sacredness to life by the title.
Scrin, an
old Anglo-Saxon word meaning 'a secure
container’ (which held writing) evolved into our modern
English words of script (scripture) and shrine.
"In
her most recent work, Mallory has drawn inspiration from
the vertical stone configurations
created by primeval civilizations
to visually communicate important information
to community
members. Her stacked “standing stones,” in form
and content,
echo the Inuit inukshuk stone totems, European menhirs and
anthropomorphic stelae. An ancient Anglo-Saxon term, scrin,
(which evolved
into the modern English words “script” and “shrine”)
meaning “a secure container protecting sacred writing,” further
informed her thinking. These two seemingly divergent ideas
synthesized
in her most recent sculpture, Water’s Scrin, in which
the upright
pieces bear the imprints of “the writing of water” on
its
surfaces, thereby implying the “sacredness” of the life-sustaining
liquid. The inherent beauty of the overlapping celadon and white
porcelain
glaze flows holds the moment of “water’s writing” as
both visual message and arresting aesthetic."
—Jane King Hession, arts writer and author of
Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959
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