WONDERCHAOS
  • ABOUT
  • CONCEPT
  • LIST OF WORKS
    • ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STAY
    • ALTERNATIVE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR: THE SHEEP OF MR. CHARLES PLATTS
    • FROM MY WHITE ROOM
    • IF YOU WANT TO HEAR SOME MUSIC, OPEN THE WINDOW: HOMAGE TO JOHN CAGE
    • NOTHING IS EVER THE SAME / NOW IS ALWAYS DIFFERENT
    • NUMBERS AND QUESTIONS: AFTERNOONS AT THE INSTITUTE OF CHAOS
    • P O R T A L
    • RANDOM CRYSTALS
    • SOUND PASSING THROUGH CIRCUMSTANCE
    • THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEFORE AND AFTER
    • THE YOUNG SUN THAT RISES IN THE MORNING
    • TO LIVE YOUR LIFE IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS TO CROSS A FIELD
    • UNPACKING
    • WONDERCHAOS
    • WONDERCHAOS: THE CERTAINTY OF CHANCE
  • SOUNDS
  • WORDS
  • CONTACT

P O R T A L

Picture
©Jonty Wilde
Picture
©Jonty Wilde
2021
Steel

"I see language as a portal into other cultures, other worlds, other ways of seeing things."

Kate Daudy’s first steel sculpture, P O R T A L, is an exploration of language and communication. It results from the artist’s lockdown study of Aramaic, a language dating back to 3000 BCE. Through her investigations of ancient myths, chaos and creation, Daudy was particularly drawn to a legend of how the written word came to mankind. 

The legend has it that both spoken and written language were given to man in order that angels be able to teach them about the heavenly sphere.

The wild colour celebrates the ancient practice of painting on walls and sculpture. Yellow is the solar colour of Ancient Egypt; the doors of the temples, the faces of the deceased were painted yellow. The layered portal shape composed of small circular panels recalls the winged door guardians of Assyria; lions or jackals guarded the entrances to tombs and temples in order to ward off chaos.
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  • ABOUT
  • CONCEPT
  • LIST OF WORKS
    • ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STAY
    • ALTERNATIVE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR: THE SHEEP OF MR. CHARLES PLATTS
    • FROM MY WHITE ROOM
    • IF YOU WANT TO HEAR SOME MUSIC, OPEN THE WINDOW: HOMAGE TO JOHN CAGE
    • NOTHING IS EVER THE SAME / NOW IS ALWAYS DIFFERENT
    • NUMBERS AND QUESTIONS: AFTERNOONS AT THE INSTITUTE OF CHAOS
    • P O R T A L
    • RANDOM CRYSTALS
    • SOUND PASSING THROUGH CIRCUMSTANCE
    • THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEFORE AND AFTER
    • THE YOUNG SUN THAT RISES IN THE MORNING
    • TO LIVE YOUR LIFE IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS TO CROSS A FIELD
    • UNPACKING
    • WONDERCHAOS
    • WONDERCHAOS: THE CERTAINTY OF CHANCE
  • SOUNDS
  • WORDS
  • CONTACT