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Elizabeth Neel, Click the Tongue, 2014

Elizabeth Neel

Click the Tongue, 2014
Oil on canvas
96 x 76 in
243.8 x 193 cm
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Click the Tongue: This work is both an anatomical diagram and a vertical landscape. The title is meant to have various interpretations/ simulataneous meanings. Clicking one's tongue can be a...
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Click the Tongue: This work is both an anatomical diagram and a vertical landscape. The title is meant to have various interpretations/ simulataneous meanings. Clicking one's tongue can be a noise that symbolizes regret or disapproval - it can also be used to urge on an animal or it can be made by an animal to communicate with another animal. I chose the title because it's various meanings have to do with language and interpretation and it is evocative of a sound with many referents. All the referents do make me very aware of the architecture of the mouth and the creation of sound through coordinated devices and organs. I consulted images of x-rays and ultrasounds of soft tissues when making this work as well as images of Duck anatomy and images of Medieval and Renaissance maps and apocryphal sea creatures.
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The People, the Park, the Ornament, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, 1 May - 20 June 2014
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