Martha Fleming
Lyne Lapointe

Wild Nights / The Unswept Floor

1989
Category: 
Contemporary Canadian Art
This work, which takes its title from a poem by Emily Dickinson, provides a stage for Miasma / Hyena and the Valve and an antidote to its more difficult subject matter. Both were part of the exhibition Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me. Titled after a homoerotic poem by Christina Rossetti, the show explored themes of female pleasure and lesbian identity. Here, the patterns on the floor connect pleasure to a holistic and celebratory view of the natural world.
Artist
Title
Wild Nights / The Unswept Floor
Date
1989
Medium
Sculpture
Materials
red elm floor on plywood base, painted, finished with polyurethane varnish, encrusted with crystals, fossils, organic materials, stone mosaic
Dimensions
7.3 x 6.4 m installed (approx.)
Nationality
Canadian
Credit line
Gift of the artists, Montreal, 1994
Accession number
37736.1-25