To Cut Both Ways
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© Susan Dorothea White
To Cut Both Ways 1996chrome-plated bronze and stainless-steel scissors
15 x 37 x 6 cm (0.8 kg)
AP I/II, AP II/II
Collection of Brian Freeman, husband of the artist (AP I/II)
Collection of the artist (AP II/II)
Artist's Statement:
The idiom ‘to cut both ways’ is interpreted through hands that morph into scissors, to demonstrate that one’s actions have an equal effect on another. Any potential movement of one pair of hands would activate both pairs of scissors equally. I have explored this theme in drawings, a lithograph, a painting, and the mixed-media assemblage It Cuts Both Ways.