Flower Garden

Flower Garden

By September 26, 2019 No Comments

Cheselyn Amato calls her sculptures flowers: they are the simplest conjoining of elements—chin-high thin bamboo and pipe fittings stems and colorful balls of found fabric for blossoms. When one notices that an Israeli flag and a Palestinian keffiyeh (head scarf) are both components of one bloom the shock of recognition is addictive. That is, the eye flits from flower to flower, looking for the reward of political or satirical content hidden within each texture-soaked object. Such a synthesis of aesthetic certitude and provocative content is as seductive as it is rare, and thus is all the more prized.