Madeleine Lord

Weary

welded steel

28″ x 33″ x 6″

2023

This piece started with the pants. The wrinkled pant leg pipe set up the scene. There were other bases in its existance but this one, red and white is ideal. My figures mimic the way I feel about “things”. They let out my steam. I am weary too but I am also hopeful.

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Madeleine Lord

Fall Collection

welded found steel

59 – 29 – 7

2022

All my works starts with the story in the scraps. The legging and Bolero scraps were the inspiration for this piece. Working with solid and see through to imitate heels to head was a blast.

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Madeleine Lord

No More Dinner

Inspired by: David Seltzer, Sea Salt/Lemon Sage Mixteca-Puebla Artist, Tripod Bowl

photograph

18″ x 18″

2019

Plates, forks spoons should be on the table to serve the dinner, not abandoned in the mud. This is the antithesis of Feast, implying the end of a kitchen and family that would gather there. The empty ceremonial tripod bowl, Mixteca-Pueblo was used to invoke a prayer for plenty and gratitude when it occurred. The decorations on the stems of the forks and spoons elevated their daily utility. David Seltzer’s Sea Salt – Common Sage illustrates the memory of favorite food. Dinnerware abandoned to puddles still holds memory of diners once all connected sharing a meal.

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Madeleine Lord

Exile II

welded found steel

42″ x 21″ x 27″

2022

I created a series of figures in Exile, where all they own is memories.

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