Cole Willie, POV, 1998

P.O.V. 1998 Iris print on paper 24 x 20 Edition of 5 P.O.V., i.e., point of view, is a phrase that Cole learned from film script writing. It refers to the camera shots that show where a character is looking. The photo source is one of the many lawn-jockey figures Cole bought to use in sculptures and his large 2001 chessboard installation. Individually, the lawn jockey denotes for him the Western African Yoruba Elegba deity—a messenger, gatekeeper, and presenter of choices and options. The eyes of the figure are“gummy bears,”which Cole selected to convey the seemingly sweet, childish, beneficent point of view of his lawn jockey and the jockey’s complex, mutable mixture of being a southern antebellum and northern suburban talisman, and an African deity.
P.O.V. 1998 Iris print on paper 24 x 20 Edition of 5 P.O.V., i.e., point of view, is a phrase that Cole learned from film script writing. It refers to the camera shots that show where a character is looking. The photo source is one of the many lawn-jockey figures Cole bought to use in sculptures and his large 2001 chessboard installation. Individually, the lawn jockey denotes for him the Western African Yoruba Elegba deity—a messenger, gatekeeper, and presenter of choices and options. The eyes of the figure are“gummy bears,”which Cole selected to convey the seemingly sweet, childish, beneficent point of view of his lawn jockey and the jockey’s complex, mutable mixture of being a southern antebellum and northern suburban talisman, and an African deity.
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