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About Elaine Luther:
I work with found images and objects in my collage and assemblage. With found objects, which are sometimes literally found on the ground, and other times I know what I’m looking for and I go and get it – with those objects, I often like to transform them first into a metal. Usually silver or bronze.
Taking a common object, like the baby shower decoration plastic baby and casting it in silver transforms your experience of it. It’s familiar, yet strangely, not.
Larger objects, I’ve taken to silver leafing, to keep the cost down. But the goal of transformation is the same.
Now I’m also working in bronze, the material of medals and monumental sculpture. I take an everyday object, like a plastic or carved bone button and cast it in bronze and suddenly it’s monumentalized. It’s become something else. The overall message of these transformations is that women’s daily lives, domestic work, has value. My life.
Taking a common object, like the baby shower decoration plastic baby and casting it in silver transforms your experience of it. It’s familiar, yet strangely, not.
Larger objects, I’ve taken to silver leafing, to keep the cost down. But the goal of transformation is the same.
Now I’m also working in bronze, the material of medals and monumental sculpture. I take an everyday object, like a plastic or carved bone button and cast it in bronze and suddenly it’s monumentalized. It’s become something else. The overall message of these transformations is that women’s daily lives, domestic work, has value. My life.
