Linda Williams McCune

Title: Natural and Theological Virtues and Vices - Fortitude
Wood, metal, fabric, pigmet, plexiglass
2’x2’x5.5’

Studio:
1000 Hammett Bridge Road
Greer, SC 29650
864-879-4515
www. southernartistry.org
www.tristatesculptors.org

Directions:
From North Main Street, turn right on Park Street. Continue over Stone/Laurens Road. Park becomes E. North Street. Continue on E. North Street past Pleasantburg. East North will turn into Old Spartanburg. Old Spartanburg turns into Hammett Bridge at Batesville Road. 3rd house on the left past Batesville Road. White wall and white cube house.

Artist Statement:
Our global community seems to admire destructive and escapist activities. It seems appropriate and necessary in this arena that content be concerned with experience in conjunction with theory, with the higher value of people over technology, and with the substance of genuine emotion over hype. These expiatory, documentary works retain their urgency and vitality for me because of this attachment to and concern for life issues. In these works and understanding of the past and present emotional and ethical struggles join and give explanation to each other as they magnify the universal leveling effect of time.

The sculptures produced in this context are relics and become reliquaries as details are added. Therefore, none of the elements in the objects are to be taken as ornamentation only, but as part of their meaning and effectiveness. These mimetically stated yet strongly symbolic objects I choose to make have an even more rich abstract metaphorical language inherent in their use and inherent in the message of the craft process used to produce them. As objects, they have a formal and informal ritual base. This combination of visually appealing surfacing and underlying message seems to me to have the most possibilities for exploration of both emotional language and scope in depth of content. This combination as well seems to sustain both short term and longer, more sensitive involvement from me as well as others. With little difference between the form the content takes and the content itself, the related visual and written parts of these works are accessible and can, I believe, produce associations from common experience. This leaves perceptions on many levels possible for the layperson as well as those more involved in the arts.