Blasphemous Rumors

Tilting 19th century skyscrapers jut precariously from the top of the Tower of Babel which stands like a tiered cake of doors and windows studded with vintage smiling black and white lips. The tower is seated in the blue hands from Albrecht Dürer’s drawing, Praying Hands, with a small antique globe set just at the wrists. The whole mount of buildings, tower, and hands rest in an ornately carved alabaster cup. A larger globe hovering in the background is surrounded by horizontal and vertical spinning rings covered in black and white unblinking eyes. One of the rings is set with astrological symbols.

Egyptian bark paper, paper, glue

W. 15 in., H. 23 in.

2022