Yuletto
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Article: Madison's Eastside News
Article: Brava Magazine (formerly known as Anew)
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The sculpture is a person wrapped in cloth. The marble is mostly white but has some gold and green areas. Perhaps Yuletto's wrap makes her feel protected (hugged) emotionally but the viewer can see that it is not substantial so maybe the viewer knows more about the situation then she does. A song from the play "Into the Woods" comes to mind. There is a great lyric sung by the Red Riding Hood character: "Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood, They will not protect you the way that they should.... "I have the feeling that Yuletto hasn't quite learned that yet. ...still she has a lot of inner strength, dignity, perseverance and calmness. The sculpture is placed in a large room within a bank of windows that looks out over a big sky and desert landscape. The house and the base were designed by Stephen Boelter. I'm not making this up when I tell you that the day we installed it a full rainbow arched across the landscape. The couple who commissioned this piece chose a 250 pound stone from Marble Colorado and drove it out to Wisconsin for a sculpture. Karen named it "Yuletto" because the name of the quarry is "Yule", they really like Christo's (wrapped art), and "ette" is a feminine suffix (dude-ette). |
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La Bella Figura by Jules Wolf Stenzel you name it permanance this slice of crystalline limestone though I know it to be a kind of motion metamorphosism slower than our hearts beating brief ennui slower than millenia we are its blink-- your work merely quickening its progress pieces falling away like paths sidetracking ambition fragmenting off the form the assumed solidity of permanance is actually its transformation through this little earth, little galaxy the swirl of the marble: the echo of the milky way, the echo of DNA here, linking us, we chip away at the shape of foretelling I envision you focusing, clarifying zooming in on planets, galaxies, dreams, hope in the thought of the sculpture I envision your body wrapped around it like a lover wrapped within it like an enchantment the cool smoothness you give it: the snag it hooks you by and when you look away out of the corner of your eye you see yourself polished within |
| Completed: | 2006 |
| Dimensions: | 6"x 8" x 36" |
| Materials: | Yule Marble (Also used for the Tomb of the unknown soldier and the Lincoln Memorial.) (Slide show about Yule and how marble is made) |
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Karen Combs & Stephen Boelter |
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