Come Here Leave Me Alone

"Come Here Leave Me Alone"
is a sculpture made during the early 1980s. High-fired clay, painted with acrylics, mounted on a wood base.

the sacrifices
one makes to become an artist.
The sculpture has a demonic quality: Lorca's duende, Singer's dybbuk, Muse as Siren with a long sensual tongue,
a hand beckoning the artist draw closer.

Her call is to endless failure, with moments of satisfaction. As the work progresses it becomes more demanding: the artist's dilemma and while the isolated calls of a single wolf are not comparable to the complex speech of an individual human, perhaps the interactive vocal pattern of the pack is a sign of indirection.

Link from image

while the:. Dunn, "Speculations: on the evolutionary continuity of music and animal communication behavior." In, Music, Language and Environment: Collected Works by David Dunn, (Self-published, 1990)