LILLIAN HEREDIA

Sibyl is yet another figure offascination.  Prophetesses or oracles, theyfirmly rooted in the pre-Christian pagan; however, they were also thought tohave foretold the coming of Christ.  Theywere often linked with caves, symbolic junctions to the underworld.  This hinge—a point of inversion of both storyand site—is something I continue to attempt with material.  Upholstery foam—carved, layered, and shaped—issubmerged in plaster.  The plaster onlypenetrates the foam to a minor degree, but it is enough to stand erect andmimic the surface of solid stone.  Asubtle carving into the surface reveals, a crack becomes an entrance intosomething unpredictable and unknowable, a place where prior certaintiesdissolve and new realities are made possible.