New World

We often find objects that remind us of our cultural/historic origins.

The sculpture, New World, incorporates elements related to memory.

My grandparents came from eastern Europe near the turn of 1900.  All but one of them, my paternal grandfather, passed through Ellis Island.  They all passed the Statue of Liberty.

The Brownie Box camera of that era was the equivalent of the smart phone in revolutionizing the average person's ability to take photographs; an extraordinary leap in technology.

The 16mm home movie camera came later but had the same effect; it began the home movie era and led directly to Youtube.

This sculpture, composed of the camera body, a small Statue of Liberty found broken on the street in front of the Empire State Building in NYC, a glazing pipette found in the defunct pottery studio at Goddard College, one of my molars, and a strip of 16 mm movie film should speak for themselves...