Blind Fate
1994
Clay and straw
This installation was created in response to an invitation from the Greek curator Sania Papa to participate in the International Meeting of Sculpture at the European Cultural Centre in Delphos, Greece. Many artists from different countries came to Delphos to produce a work to be installed on the side of the mythological mountain Parnassus. My installation consisted of about thirty heads cast in clay and straw from a model of my own head. They were installed as if the body were buried underneath. It was inspired both by an Indian torture that blinded the victims by forcing them to look at the sun, and by a line recited by Jocasta in Oedipus Rex: 'What can a man driven by a blind fate be afraid of? I also designed the sculpture so that, after a few rainy days, it would melt into the red soil of Parnassus.
