Susan Rowland, Carla

From the artist:

A woman, after hearing Bertrand Russell
describe the structure of the universe,
said, “Very clever young man, but the
world is a flat plate supported on the back
of a giant tortoise, and it’s turtles all the
way down.”
She was wrong. Actually, it’s dogs all
the way down. North of Barcelona, in a
Medieval church I saw two small lions
holding up a sarcophagus, but the itinerant
sculptors who worked on the churches
hadn’t seen any real lions and those lions
are dogs with manes. I have seen working
dogs everywhere, supporting Chinese
temples and French drainpipes, hunting
Italian dragons and guarding the dead in
Mexican, Etruscan and Egyptian tombs.
These clay dogs, the Carlas, are not
monumental, but they are from a pack
of important little dogs, made to hold
up New York. - SR