Mary Ann Grainger
Turtle Island - An Urban Sanctuary
Museum quality cold-cast bronze replica of a 100 year old Royal Ontario Museum snapping turtle carapace.
12” x 10” x 3”’ Encausted Patinated Cold Cast Bronze Maquette Open edition (without holes). $150
“Turtle Island” was created for a group show of outdoor sculpture entitled “Green Spaces”.
Rather than build a sculpture to place in a green space, I created a sculpture which would create green space where none exists.
Created to be surrounded by skyscrapers, “Turtle Island - An Urban Sanctuary” uses native creation mythology, lighting, sound and architecture to transport the public back in time to when the very place in which they are standing was once forest and water.
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