Rachel de Joode’s new street sculpture series builds Altars of bovine heads and hearts on a wooden pike, a tongue tied to a rail and piles of bread on the sidewalk all wrapped with electrical wire. Gross. But interesting.
These altars appear to be sicrete enities, placed in a number of urban locations, including public spaces, strips of urban nature, facades of domestic building and parking lots. They serve to praise, bless and conntect us to important components of human culture: food, energy, transmission, light, the physical body, nature, home, growth, time…
Each raw assemblage is its own separate themed altar. There’s a thin line between stacks of trash and iconic cornucopia art… so, kudos on the win.
