“A dream is where we’ll meet – 12-foot giraffe paper cast from letters of prisoners
I first model the piece in clay and then cast the clay into bronze in my studio foundry. The colors are a patina using both pigments and acids burned onto the bronze. I am also casting pieces in paper, using the thousands of letters received through the Prisoner Express project in which I volunteer as art director.
Night Mutiny: This sculpture is paper cast from the letters of prisoners on San Quentin death row. The letters were given to me from PAFA alum Nancy Brandt who worked as a lawyer with these prisoners. I chose the title as Night is the time of death for death row prisoners and Mutiny because the death penalty seems as a rebellion against a higher order of compassion; forcing to wonder what would compassionate accountability look like?
I’m reading them again, the ones you didn’t burn: Paper cast from letters of prisoners, 70x36x24″
I’m reading them again….detail
Born in a diaspora, cast paper from letters of prisoners, 42x36x16″
Born in a diaspora, detail
Sky bromes water and water is known by thirst, 46x20x20 paper cast from letters of prisoners
Sky becomes water and water is known by thirst, paper cast from letters of prisoners
When you wake, you will have cake – series of 350-50 lamb heads, each head is 12″x12″x12″ – paper cast from letters of prisoners
When you wake, you will have cake, single portrait, paper cast from letters of prisoners
When you wake, you will have cake, single head of many, paper cast from letters of prisoners
We met on the steps, bronze 7x5x5″
We met on the steps, bronze, detail
Diaspora of one – bronze 16x9x9″ another view,
Diaspora of one, bronze 16x9x9
In the morning, I’ll be gone, bronze 17x12x6
In the morning, I’ll be gone, bronze detail
Trambling ground bronze 12x6x7
Minerva’s closed wings bronze 15x6x5″
Fable bronze,
Homo sacre, bronze 15x6x6″
Symbiosis One bronze 15x7x7
My sister’s melting house
Doors to the outside
Symbiosis two
Treacy Ziegler 
Treacy, we thoroughly enjoyed your exhibit at the Erie Art Museum.
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Dear Allen, Thanks so much for your comment and for taking the time to see the exhibition! (Right now I’m at the museum doing an interview with Roman Glass (staff) for the museum’s Facebook page.)
Best, Treacy
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