Fork and Knife Artist Melissa Haviland | Sentinel 1

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Artist Melissa Haviland

Athens, Ohio

Sentinel 1
Charcoal

Artist Statement
The Sentinel drawings are part of a series of 12 charcoal drawings that stand 5 foot tall, human-like in the space.  They depict the cream ladle nestled in the gravy ladle of twelve silver tableware patterns sold by the company Replacements, Ltd in Greensboro, North Carolina, where I was an Artist in Residence. 

A customer at Replacements inspired the drawings.  She had brought in pieces of silver with the goal of identifying its pattern and buying a few replacement pieces for the set. Through the conversation with the replacements staff, it was reveled that she had never owned a gravy ladle (larger)—only a cream ladle (slightly smaller).

The customer was shocked and upset that she had been serving gravy with a cream ladle for almost 20 years. She promptly bought a gravy ladle.  The Sentinel drawings are about the power that objects can have over us.

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