Daniel Kukla The Edge Effect

Babis Cloud

“Hedonism(y) Trojaner”

"A Big English Breakfast" Pamela Allen

Kingston, Ontario, Canada2006 39x29

• Recycled and commercial fabrics, big stitch, raw edge applique, machine quilting. Embellished with found objects , styrofoam fruit and vegetables, kitchen cutlery.

• I confess I am a lover of food. It is a great disappointment to me that I married a man who is Ho Hum about eating. But being British, he did introduce me to the joys of a big breakfast. This hanging is densely quilted with all kinds of culinary delights, from corn on the cob to fish to avocado to grapes!

Miraculous Landing, or the "112!", 1920Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940)Watercolor, transferred printing ink, pen, and ink on paper 9 3/8 x 12 1/2 in. (23.6 x 31.8 cm)

Lulua Ceremonial Mask Origin: Southeastern CongoCirca: 20 th Century AD Dimensions: 12.25" (31.1cm) high Medium: Wood

The Lulua (or Bena-Lulua) are a small, caste-based tribal group living in the Southern Congo, where they migrated in the 18th century. They are governed as a series of semi-independent micro-states that come together under a single chief in times of social strife. Their society underwent major transformations in the late 19th century due to the efforts of a reformative king named Kalambam; for our purposes, he ordered the burning of “cult” carvings, so old Lulua pieces are somewhat rarer than might otherwise have been suspected. Secular objects were unaffected, so pipes, neck-rests and the like are not uncommon. Figures are usually very ornately decorated with scarifications, long necks and often a spike arrangement atop the head. The few known masks are associated with funerary and circumcision rituals, and while they vary considerably, they usually have large eyes and complex scarifications. Intuitively, one should imagine the social effect of masks, in their original contexts. While fairly unthreatening in its current metier, one can imagine the effect it might have had on susceptible adolescent boys as it loomed out of the darkness on the night of their circumcision. This is a rare and exceptional piece of African art.

Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989). The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on canvas. 24.1 x 33 cm (9 1/2 x 13 in.).

• Mask made from wood, vegetable fibre, barkcloth, opercula of sea snails, feathers, pigment, and a European shoe- or clothes-brush in

• northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

• 50 cms high. • This mask was probably made in

the mid-to-late 1880s. • Such crested masks are known as

tatanua. • According to early accounts, they

were representations of the spirit or soul (tanua) of dead people.

• The Fog Warning, 1885 by Winslow Homer

Andrew Wyeth Christina's World 1948 Tempera32 1/4 x 47 3/4 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York

• Diego Velazquez• Las Meninas• 1656• Oil on canvas• 10'5" x 9'1“• Museo del

Prado, Madrid

• John Cederquist (American, b 1946), “Couchabunga,” 1992, Baltic birch plywood, basswood, maple, epoxy resin inlay, oil-based lithography ink, aniline dye/epoxy, aniline dye. The Daphne Farago Collection. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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