OVUM INFINITUM    
66.75 in. x 47.5 in.
mixed media: wood, paint, cloth, screws, metal t–braces, engraving, cloth, nails, copper caps, on wood.
©Maureen Kelleher 2008
Detail image with engraved text. Back to gallery 2

Engraved text on the work:
      Outside the Frame: Outside Forces; 82nd Airborne Ab Ovo Division; The Charge Up San Juan Cervical Hill; Barry White’s Greatest Hits, oh baby baby; Delta Force Fallopian Tubes

Inside the Frame: words engraved on miniature wood blocks:

Latent Eggs / Latent Lives

Leopard eggs / Space alien babies

The ones that didn’t take / The ones that did

Ovum possibilities / Ovum infinitum

We are the potential world / Low carb nation

Hard boiled / Ovum continuum

Some of you will get legs / Some of you will slough away / Some of you will come out of this alive.

Artist’s note: The eggs! The sperm! The barriers that stand between them! And what made my egg so special that I turned into a zygote and then turned into a human being? Why didn’t I end up my sister?