| Alexandra
Sax exhibits the new Wave Hill installment of her
ongoing Menagerie Recovery Project. These small-scale,
papier-mâche animal sculptures are intricately
detailed and textured with feathers, fabric, and fur.
The Wave Hill House reception area is populated with
a group of enigmatic creatures poised on architectural
fragments. They seem to possess life-like qualities
and personalities, in fact some contain motors and
music boxes. Begun in 1997, the Menagerie Recovery
Project was inspired by the writings and work of naturalist
Gerald Durrell. It includes the Winter Walk Menagerie,
the Willard Stein Menagerie, the Wilma Rose Menagerie
and the Royal Court Menagerie.
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