ELIZABETH NANNINI


Sculpture



Dead Man's Prayerbook,18" x 15" x 15", wood, glass, fabric, found objects, 1996


One aspect of my work has been to borrow and invent my own belief system. I began by compiling my own set of relics and artifacts and enclosing them in containers. These objects are ritual objects, relics, talismans against evil spirits.


Sorrows,36" x 18" x 18", wood, glass, fabric, forged and welded steel, plaster, ash, glass, 1995


The more mysterious and inexplicable the objects, the more ritualistic their power.