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Dancing Quadrupeds
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Ages of Woman Series
Mosaic Commissions 2006-2023

Dancing Quadrupeds

The Dancing Quadrupeds gallery that you see on this site is a new addition to my website. These little clay critters were created when I was teaching children how to make animals out of clay. I would hurriedly make a sample and throw it on the rack to be fired. They very often came out with one rear leg in the air. The children noticed this saying, “Miss Elissa, they look like they are peeing”. Then if they were slightly tilted the front leg went into the air and they looked like they were dancing. Thus the birth of the “Dancing Quadruped” (quadruped being the latin for “four footed”). As time went on I created stories to go with them and made them so that they can dance all sorts of ways – on their heads, tails, right side up or upside down. And the question remains “what is their continual source of Joy?

About Elissa

Growing up by the side of my sculptor father, I was introduced to museums, Galleries and artists studios starting at four years old. Yet to this day the formalities of the art world are avoided and I am most exhilarated by working on sites where art and the public environment meet. Perhaps because my father was often working on massive friezes and sculptures, over the years for me the most exciting projects have been the ones involving public spaces.

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