Ruby Sky Stiler: Inherited and Borrowed Types is a chapter title excerpted from A Handbook of Greek Sculpture, a dusty old book I found at a yard sale a few years ago. The chapter outlines the influences from which early Greek art was derived, and indicates that the highest, most idealized forms of Greek art can be, in most cases, traced back to an origin which is not Greek. The term "type" in this context refers to any figurative Greek form. My sculptures also mimic a "type" which I didn't originally invent. In this show, I continued the lineage of borrowed "types" by referencing the classical figurative canon-and pushing them into a territory that is my own.
I've also used this same book as a basic art material, through weaving its fragile, yellowing pages together into collages shown alongside the sculptures.