Legs Icon (Turtleback)

19″x10″x4″
Pigment, oil, skin glue and 12kt gold leaf on curved panel
2008

1 of 8 divination tablets. 1 of 4 which have one side of white gold (12kt) – 50% gold and 50% silver – yin and yang, sun and moon, are equalized. These are the newest and final pieces in the Legs Icon group.

The divination question never became words on this one. The question and the answer emerge in a kind of turtleback pattern. Some of the earliest symbolic language was etched into turtle shells thousands of years ago in what is now China. The forms were also arrived at via divination.