Description
From Alice in Wonderland to Mount Rushmore to Oldenburg’s Clothespin, distortions of scale open the door to new ways of perceiving. Stuart’s outsize cast bronze ‘Praying Mantis’ enlarges the familiar insect form to human scale, and in doing so introduces the kind of altered relationship that enhanced proportionate size effects. This creature, so sleek, so alien, and yet so familiar, embodies the uncanny, or rather a paradoxical cognitive dissonance that personified points to both horror and reverence, to the known and the unknown.


















