The phrase
"black rope" refers to a length of rope that is colored black.
Full definition
[3]
Using black rope and black Mardi Gras beads, Locke creates a raucous parade of characters across geographic traditions: Angels, Inca gods, queens of Benin, gargoyles, baboons, and a marching band fill the room.
The Times - Picayune visits Newcombe Art Gallery where, as a part of Prospect 3 New Orleans, British artist Hew Locke «s
black rope drawings (above), dangling with beads that conjure Mardi Gras are on view.
Gallery walls are covered with his linear baroque flourishes, line drawings rendered
in black rope and beads depicting the march of history as a fantastical Carnival procession with mythic gods, beasts and bizarre creatures brandishing assault rifles.
Peterson glanced down to their feet and saw the outline of a body under a white shroud, attached by two
black ropes to a bicycle.
Down the hill, past the line of willows and the hollow pine and the plum tree, the Susquehanna River coiled like
a black rope.
London - based artist Hew Locke's murals are like gigantic, meticulous pen - and - ink drawings, rendered in lengths of
black rope that are glued directly to the gallery walls.
On the east side of the gallery, one first encountered four long hanging sculptures by Antunes, delicate nine - to thirteen - foot - tall constructions of
black rope and brass pipes that are part of her 2010 «Chain of Triangles» series.