Wedding Ring Drawing (Circumference of a Living Room)

Cornelia Parker

1996

Two 22-carat gold wedding rings drawn into wire

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Known for her spectacular adaptation of existing materials, Cornelia Parker (Born 1956 in Cheshire, UK) poetically transforms objects through conceptual and physical processes. She brings an elegant sculptural hand to the evocative metaphors she conjures in deeply compelling works. Wedding Ring Drawing (Circumference of a Living Room) captures the conceptual richness and visual delight of much of Parker’s work. In this case, she quite literally draws the symbolic found elements, two wedding rings, into new metaphorical forms. The gold was melted into an ingot and drawn into a single thread approximately forty feet long. Its lengthen