Reinventing the Wheel
© Susan Dorothea White
Reinventing the Wheel 2001assemblage: carved salvaged Huon pine, wax, dividers, fabric, vintage T-model Ford wheel and tyre, doorbell, drafting paper
76 x 110 x 82 cm (18 kg (est.))
Collection of the artist
Artist's Statement:
The sculpture assemblage is inspired by the idiom 'to re-invent the wheel' and the figure with the compass in Raphael's fresco The School of Athens. I used my husband’s hand as a model. Carving the gap between the thumb and index finger to match the thickness of the divider leg was a challenge. The growth rings of the slow-growing Huon pine are so close together that they resemble fingerprints.