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1979 Pontiac Trans-Am. Gold, no less. |
American muscle cars — a 1967 Chrysler Crown Imperial is a stand-in for Osiris; also a 1979 Pontiac Trans-Am; connotes a masculine power parallel to auras exuded by Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway; chopped and melted down to be recast as sculpture
Metals and minerals — gold, silver, lapis, sulfur; richly symbolic, links between the ancient Egyptian and contemporary American worlds; alchemical transformation
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Matthew Barney, DJED, 2009—11, courtesy Gladstone Gallery |
River — passageway; connectivity; life source; mutability; inexorability
Foundry — transformation; alchemy; reincarnation; manufacture of immutable objects
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The hood of the 1967 Chrysler Imperial. Ba bird or flaming chicken? |
The seven stages of the soul’s departure from the body as it passes from death to rebirth:
Ren – Departure of one’s secret name
Sekhem – Departure of one’s power
Khu – One’s light
Ba – One’s sprit
Ka – One’s double
Khaibit – One’s shadow
Sekhu – One’s remains
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