SAW LIGHTNING
SAW LIGHTNING
Bronze, 2019
W x L x H
8 x 14 x 21 inches
Limited Edition of 10
Laura Teste
SAW LIGHTNING urges the viewer to adopt a bold attitude. Where one may run from thunder, this figure calls to the storm seeing adventure, not hazards. The sculpture composition naturally uplifts the viewer, both figuratively and metaphorically, to experience her brilliance. Laura Testé’s use of negative space provides breathing room to amplify the figure and her attitude. The couplet “Her grit is her guile, and her guile is her gain. Where others feel wet, she begins her reign,” drawn from Testé ekphrastic poem inspired by her sculpture Saw Lightning is a fitting caption.
SAW LIGHTING was chosen for by the Whitewater Valley Art 2022 Competition at Indiana University East Gallery, selected by Gutman Gallery 2021 ReUnited exposition, and exhibited at the Arthur Secunda Museum in 2019.
SAW LIGHTNING
She wakes not to walk
merely cloaked in the norm,
Nor stares at a clock,
just to coast or conform.
She sees the heat lightning
and calls to the storm,
The thunder inviting,
colossus in form.
She fingers the drops
of the afternoon rain,
On pavers and puddles,
the echoes refrain.
Her grit is her guile
and her guile is her gain,
Where others feel wet,
she begins in her reign.
