1997

Sneeze

American, born 1951

A sculptor and draftsman, Fasnacht became fascinated in 1997 with portraying images of explosions of all kinds: starting with sneezes and moving on to more violent eruptions such as geysers, volcanoes, and the like-phenomena that are sudden, resist capture, and are nearly impossible to visualize in any conventional way. This drawing was one of the earliest of several drawings and sculptures of this subject; it ultimately served as the basis of a maquette for a wire-and-polymer clay sculpture in which the sneeze bursts forth in three dimensions from a hole in a plaster wall.