Untitled 1968

Here's a sculpture by Fusun Onur, and it looks like it was made with plaster. The mark-making here is so striking! I like how the cuts into the plaster disrupt the smooth surface. The texture is also very interesting, it seems slightly gritty, and that gives it a grounded, earthy feel. The beige color adds a sense of warmth, almost like a sun-bleached bone in the desert. The way the cuts create angles that seem to converge at a single point. It is a physical act of carving into the material, but it also seems like a metaphor. I can't help but think of Louise Bourgeois when I look at this, especially the way she used plaster in her early work, it is definitely part of an ongoing conversation between artists across different times and places. The ambiguity is so good. What do you see?