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Syd Carpenter began her academic career in Philadelphia as a painting major at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Under the tutelage of Rudolf Staffel, the renowned artist and professor of ceramics, she took several required classes that caused her to find her voice in clay. “A Snake Without a Head Is Just a Rope” is one of a series of four helix-based forms she created in 1994 and was influenced by a trip she took in the late 1980s to Brazil. This trip was the first time she had experienced diasporic African spirituality and its role in culture directly.

“A Snake without a Head Is Just a Rope,” 1994, by Syd Carpenter © Syd Carpenter

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