Laura Ellen Bacon

Bacon weaves sculptures from willow branches and other materials (other types of wood and in one instance, redundant computer cabling, but mostly willow). They generally use something pre-existing as support and anchor, causing what art critics love to call a "dialogue" between the sculpture and whatever it is attached to. Sometimes these anchoring structures are natural, such as living trees but mostly are human objects such as dry stone walls, and the interiors and exteriors of buildings.

The sculptures have a very organic feel, seeming like nests or vacated coccoons of strange creatures simultaneously at one with nature and alien to our experience. I like them a lot and for the most part the photos in this little book make a very good job of showing the mood as well as forms of Bacon's work.… (más)