Sarah Stein
RECENT WORK
- resist obvious connections...
- Five Coloured Suns
- The Opening: Structures of Uncertainty
- Nothing was said but a gesture
- The mistaken belief of invisibility
- Drawings: Procrastination Series
ARCHIVE
- The Aleph (Manifest)
- Closer: Proximities and Perimeters
- Withdrawn from Memory
- Subjective Lines
- The Sinuosities of the Serpent
- Present Imperfect, Future Tense
The Sinuosities of the Serpent
The Sinuosities of the Serpent
The Sinuosities of the Serpent I
The Sinuosities of the Serpent II
The Sinuosities of the Serpent III
The Sinuosities of the Serpent and the Unchanging Twoness of Things, 2011
Snake traces in charcoal powder on paper, wood, paint, charcoal powder
"All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that for every ladder you hope to climb, a snake is waiting just around the corner, and for every snake a ladder will compensate. But it's more than that; no mere carrot-and-stick affair; because implicit in the game is unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions."
Salmon Rushdie, Midnight's Children