Artist Statement

Dust to Dust

Ceramic installation

2008

Dust to Dust is about the fleeting quality of life.   Like an archeological dig the piece is composed of layers of debris. Visually sifting through the elements offers a glimpse of the beauty and vigor of youth, but also decay, decomposition and then the possibility of regeneration.

While working on this piece I came upon a Robert Frost poem that deals with a similar theme.

   Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

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I was born in New York in 1953. I received a BSC from the University of British Columbia, a BFA from Alfred University and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

For more information about my work, please email judeco2@comcast.net

http://www.judithcohn.com.