Two women talking in front of a Nicole Eisenman sculpture in the courtyard at the Royal Academy. The sculpture is of a bent figure with a stick supporting his aching bones, and on his back and tied to him is a barrel, and on that is large blob that could be the belly of a pig or a sack or anything at all, and on top of that is a bear, well it is probably a bear, and on top of that is a fat blue person with a flower vase on their head.
I read up about it and the shapeless object is a potato, the bear is not a bear but her cat Edie, and the blue figure is the sculptor Phyllida Barlow.
The Iroquois of North America have a tradition of a bird on a turtle supporting Sky woman.
In Indian mythology an elephant rides on a turtle’s back. In an Islamic tradition a fish supports a bull that supports a precious stone, and on that is an angel carrying the Earth.
What is it that attracts people to the idea of stacks and makes them meaningful?
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