By all standards, it was an amazing work, as were the accompanying works on paper and framed bark pieces. Illustrations follow text. Julia P. And when we conclude, we will have drawn a fuller picture of how and why sound eventually became music, and why music, so central to your very being, was so unusually created in some of your work between and Illustration 5.
In either case, they would face each other. Then they could become actively involved with the piece and tap the rawhide insets on the top. The rectangular rawhide insets serve as drums. As you know, rawhide is a principal material used to make drums, and in Cuban music, in percussion, rawhide reigns supreme. Drums, gongs, and maracas are all percussion.
MEG: I grew up listening to music pretty much everyday and still listen to music all the time. And since the mids, I have mostly listened to jazz in my studio—I must have been in an Ella Fitzgerald phase. As far as the spelling is concerned, T has a structural, architectural look to it, while playing with language is a result of bilingualism. JPH: Immediately following T for Two , you began working with rawhide, wood, and rope, materials used in Untitled and Rotunda , and in two other similar sculptures at that time.
All of these were intended to include sound and be interactive. Would you elaborate on their production, and their anticipated presence in an exhibition venue? MEG: At the time I made these rawhide sculptures, I was not only interested in having sound emanate from the works but equally in having the viewer physically interact with the sculptures to get involved with the pieces.
I was tired of seeing viewers in the gallery just looking at the work without ever touching it. I wanted people to touch the rawhide in the sculptures, to get involved in their spatial dimensions, and to be accountable for the sound they were making. Even though the viewers were not going to play a symphony, they could still touch the rawhide and strike up a beat, just as in T for Two. Allowing for that kind of engagement through sculpture was a huge leap for me.
