An Evening's Breath
Artist
Jeff Mongrain
(United States, born 1956)
Date2000
MediumGlazed stoneware, wax, and water
DimensionsH x W x D: 35 x 24 x 8 in. (88.9 x 61 x 20.3 cm)
Object TypeMixed media
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of the artist
Object number2002.477
On View
Not on view• An Evening’s Breath suggests a floating pillow bearing the impression of a human head.
• The indentation holds eight and a half ounces of water, the amount of moisture in the breath exhaled by an average adult during eight hours of sleep.
• Mongrain’s inspiration for An Evening’s Breath comes from statuary found in crypts in European churches.
• The artist has said that the water he uses in artworks is often associated for him with memories of swimming in the deep, black lakes of Minnesota.
• The indentation holds eight and a half ounces of water, the amount of moisture in the breath exhaled by an average adult during eight hours of sleep.
• Mongrain’s inspiration for An Evening’s Breath comes from statuary found in crypts in European churches.
• The artist has said that the water he uses in artworks is often associated for him with memories of swimming in the deep, black lakes of Minnesota.
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