102986 | GREAT BRITAIN & ISRAEL. "Walking" cast bronze Medal.

102986  |  GREAT BRITAIN & ISRAEL. "Walking" cast bronze Medal. Issued 1996 (95mm x 104mm, 630 g, 12h). By Dana Krinsky for the British Art Medal Society and cast in Israel.

 

Stylized figure advancing left, head right; cobblestones of various sizes in background, representing different pathways that one can take in life // Similar cobblestones, with various phrases intermixed: JUNCTIONS / WALKING / CAN I REGRET NOT CHOOSING THE OTHER WAY / NEVER KNOWING WHAT AWAITS US.

 

The Medal 30 (Spring 1997), p. 144 (and also serving as the front an back cover art for the issue); Attwood 124 & p. 42. Essentially as Made. Olive-yellow surfaces. From an output of just 42 pieces.

 

The workup in the Spring 1997 issue of The Medal offers this about the artist and her BAMS medal: "Dana Krinsky (b. 1969) studied sculpture at the Avni Institute for Painting and Sculpture in Jafa and at Studio DZ in Netanya, both in Israel, and at London's Central St Martin's College of Art and Design. She made her first medals at Studio DZ. Two subsequent medals that she made as part of the BAMS Student Medal Project at Central St Martin's were included in last year's BAMS exhibition at Plantation House. One of these referred to the artist's situation as an overseas student, trying to live in two different countries: 'Tel-Aviv on one side, London on the other, trying to hold the world in my hands: the position is not comfortable? The other, for which she won the first prize, is discussed by Marcy Leavitt Bourne in the last issue of The Medal (no. 29 [1996], p. 101). About the medal she has now created for BAMS, the artist writes: 'The medal is about walking. Walking the ways of life. Thousands of ways split up and meet again to create junctions. Every single moment we choose a certain way and by this give up others. Consequently, the knowledge of what we could have experienced in the other ways is forever lost. These "existential" conflicts seem to prevent us from going forward without looking backwards. However, this situation may actually set us free from feelings of remorse. Not knowing the consequences of our choices, we should doubt the possibility of conscious choice. Therefore, the importance of the choosing reduces and the focus remains on the walking itself.'"

 

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