The Art of Mary Church: More New Arrivals!
The Junkheap Collection
This series by Mary Church muses upon the archetype of the junkheap—which McLuhan termed “the midden heap”—left over by the detritus of a blown out civilization. Plato was the first, according to McLuhan, to create a junkheap of the Homeric gods in his concept of the Ideas; Milton, in his Paradise Lost Book I created a junkheap out of all the pagan deities in his concept of Pandemonium; Jung with his archetypes of the collective unconscious created a junkheap out of all the world’s gods and myths. Church’s images comprise a junkheap of discarded signifiers left over from what Heidegger termed “the metaphysical age,” which extended from Plato to Nietzsche. It also, in a way, forecasts the future junkheap that will undoubtedly be left behind by the passing of our Faustian civilization, with all its machines left in rubble, just as envisioned by Russell Hoban in his science fiction novel Riddley Walker which influenced the junkheaps of George Miller’s Mad Max movies. (Also note with the painting called “Atrocity” the very, very rare signature by Church in the lower right hand corner).
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