The Other Babel - from Burning Helix Series

 

June Claire Wayne

  1918 - 2011 (biography)

1970  

color lithograph 

37 x 23" image and paper size 

pencil, lower left 

10 of 30  

pencil titled and editioned 

Conway 190; JW 180; G 98 

cream Rives with Tamarind watermark 

i/i; published 

Tamarind 

18459 

$1,500.00 

The "Burning Helix Series" was comprised of 20 lithographs (thirteen images in various states) based on the genetic code and the double helixes of RNA and DNA. Wayne commented about this image: "This is a reference back again to (Abraham) Kaplan's fable of the Tower of Babel, the 'other' Babel being the chattering babble of the genes. There is the crumpled paper cliff face, which you can read either as paper or as a landscape. It amused me that I was referring to a geological structure as well as to paper on which you write - two extremes of interpretation possible in the same thing."