Roberta Rousos
ARTIST
OLDIES & GOODIES
I was extremely fortunate to have access to a foundry in grad school. Molding and casting my mother's hand a few years before she passed gave me lasting memories. Due to Alzheimers, she didn't understand what I was doing in the mold process, but she knew she was helping me and that was enough. I can look back at these pieces and see the arthritis and the years and remember her.
Tenuous Legacy,13x19x8,alum concrete and fiber,2015
13"x19"x8",aluminum casting, hypertufa concrete and fiber,2015. My mother's hand, my hand and my niece's hand. Our place in life is unchangeable. Our connections to each other are by choice and fragile.
Tenuous Legacy
Reverse view
Tenuous Legacy
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The Book of Life is Inscribed with Incoherent Riddles-detail,9x7x6,2015
7"x6"x9", cast aluminum and porcupine quill, 2015. My mother's arthritic hand. She was a lover of all things written and was 82 when the mold was taken.
The Book of Life is Inscribed with Incoherent Riddles,9x7x6,2015
Reverse view
The Book of Life is Inscribed with Incoherent Riddles-detail,9x7x6,2015 (2)
Detail
Fuck It! I'm Putting Myself Back Together and Going On,10x4x4,alum and steel,2012
5"x5"x10", cast aluminum, 2012. I was just playing around with a casting of my own hand. When this configuration happened I couldn't stop laughing. It is still one of my favorite pieces for both its humor and its raw emotion of where my life was at the time.
Fuck It! I'm Putting Myself Back Together and Going On - detail
Detail
Fuck It! I'm Putting Myself Back Together and Going On,10x4x4,alum and steel,2012 (2)
Detail