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This delicate sculpture is one of Larimore’s ceremonial objects that embraces the ritual tasks of everyday life. Its receptacle—which represents the axis mundi (meaning the center of the world)—is meant to hold the odds and ends found on our daily adventures out in the world.
To quote Larimore, “Where do we put the primordial ooze that we find interesting but has no real storage place?” In this vessel random pieces of debris transform into treasured mementos from our journey through life.
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| Title: | Three for Alchemy Tea at the Tetra |
| Date: | 1993 |
| Artist: | Jack Larimore (American, born 1950) |
| Medium: | Curly maple, iron, aluminum leaf |
| Dimensions: | 36 × 10 inches (91.4 × 25.4 cm) |
| Classification: | Sculpture |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Karol Wasylyshyn and Ken Butera, 2008 |
| Accession Number: | 2008-31-4 |
| Geography: | Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America |
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