SWORD IN THE SPHINX & CUT COPY SPHINX

Virginia Lee Montgomery presents SWORD IN THE SPHINX, a resin-cast copy of a popular garden sculpture of Madame de Pompadour, a member of the 18th century French court, embedded with an artist-smithed sword. A companion video, CUT COPY SPHINX, viewable below expands on the piece’s themes of myth, reproduction, destruction, power, and ambiguity.
CUT COPY SPHINX