![]() ![]() Some of them bear legends across their chests: One little being with an extra head sprouting from the first one is labelled "egotism" a male body sporting two erections is titled "A Young Man's Glory." The figure marked "Jealousy" has one body and two antagonistic heads, each one scowling at the other. I use the word grotesque here because most of Heard's symmetrical cut-outs are of Siamese-twin-like beings, or of strange homunculi joined at the head, in hieratic configurations of two or three or four at a time. In Heard's skillful hands, they take the form of little baby-like creatures, both male and female, flat, splayed and diagrammatic, presented like grotesque confections within a surrounding context of delicately cut tendrilling vines and complex geometric decorations. Paper-cuts are everywhere in evidence in her new exhibition called Symmetries, which opened last night at the Edward Day Gallery. "It took two years, however, for paper-cutting to set in as a method I could employ to make my art," Heard says, her work up until now having been mostly sculpture. Scherenshnitte ("scissor-cutting") and first began looking at the ornate paper cuts made by Pennsylvania Dutch artisans. ![]() The journey entailed their driving through Pennsylvania, which was where she first heard the word Shortly after the apocalyptic events of 9/11, artist Catherine Heard and her partner set out on a brief vacation to Washington (the hotels were unusually cheap there after 9/11, she recalls ruefully). ![]()
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