Contain the Container

<Contain the Container teeters on a feeble hand-made

wooden table. The table is made from scraps and not-fit

wood that she salvages from a local, high-end wood

worker. It resembles an ancient ruin, deteriorating with

time and crumbling under its own weight. Contain the

Container casts a large shadow and is an object on the

precipice, ready to throw itself at one’s own feet, lunge at

the viewer or just crumble to the floor. the reference to

container is the ubiquitous plastic baskets that berries

are sold in. Tesauro magnifies the scale, flips it upside

down , and leaves it to barely rest on a table that is

woefully unstable>

Jeannine Bardo, excerpt from the catalog for Form Re-

formed

2022

Cast paper and plaster, imbedded pigment and

repurposed wood

62 × 20 × 18 inches