Study for the Double Helix #2
June Wayne
25 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (64,8 x 100,3 cm)
Ink and ink spray over sand on paper.
1969
COMMENTS
In “Study for the Double Helix” June Wayne (1918-2011) grappled once again with a poetic visualization of the DNA which James Watson and Francis Crick had identified. Characteristically Wayne experimented with new media, in this case ink and ink spray over sand on paper.
As she explained: “To me what gives so much vigor, I feel, to these things is the edge of an organic material… To me that’s very important, that the work show its essential nature. The whole idea of a natural energy that’s buzzing and hissing around us all the time is what I’m involved with here. But it had to be believable, aesthetically believable to the viewer. It had to have a vitality of its own which I would find by grounding it in something that was actually real, like the sand.”
—Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything”, 2007.
