Madeleine Lord
Fisherman
2020, welded powder-coated steel scrap 78” h x 55” w x 32” d
location: Fort Wetherill, Department of Marine Fisheries 3 Fort Wetherill Road
GPS: 41.4787, -71.35709
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Artist’s Statement
In 1973 I traveled in Northern India, with a long visit to the coastal town of Goa. The fishermen there were tall lanky men, attending their nets on the expansive beaches. I recorded my travels in photos which I printed later upon return to New York.
Forty years later I found a smashed shopping cart in my excavations for steel scrap components for my welded sculptures. The Fisherman grew out of my memories of Goa and the cart which mimicked a net.
Biography
Madeleine has worked with steel for over 30 years and has numerous permanent public art installations in New England and nationally.
Work welded from scraps transforms found metal into figures, fauna or flora where you see the image first and the ingredients second. Public Art includes a “Giraffe”, “Ostrich”, Mr. Bo Jangles” and an “Angel” owned by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Cut steel figures include “Revolutionary Figures” in Fort Washington Cambridge MA, “The Enduring American Spirit” the first 9/11 permanent memorial in Whitinsville MA and recently a “Chef Picking Herbs” commissioned by Community Servings in Jamaica Plain. Other locations for cut steel work include Gary Indiana, Dallas Texas and San Bernardo CA.
