David Harper: A Fear of Unknown Origin

Comprised of seventy-two individual ceramic sculptures that are glazed in various hues of blue, A Fear of Unknown Origin was inspired by two things that seem completely unrelated. The first inspiration came from the cyanometer, an esoteric tool alpinists used to measure distance by the shades of the sky. The second is the idiom “Entre le Chien et le Loup” (between the dog and the wolf), which describes the effects of dusk and being unable to differentiate between friend or foe. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.