Wildfire

Jeff Elrod

2006

  • Titles Wildfire (Proper)
  • Artist Jeff Elrod, American, born 1966
  • Medium acrylic on linen
  • Dimensions 72 × 36 in. (182.9 × 91.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Jack and Rebecca Drake Collection, AFI.44.2021, image Wildfire © 2006 Jeff Elrod. All rights reserved.
  • Work Type painting
  • Classification Paintings

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Cole created this monumental print by embedding the perforated surface of an ironing board and twelve iron faceplates into a plywood sheet, flush to its surface. He then applied black ink to the whole and transferred the resulting image onto a sheet of white kozo-shi paper. The silhouetted image of the ironing board's surface resembles a historic slave-ship diagram, and the faceplate designs recall the facial scarification patterns worn by some tribal Africans.
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The sheet is filled with three columns of three-dimensional box-like frames that hover above the suggestion of a horizon along the lower edge.