Three Muses is an early assemblage by the artist depicting the rebuilding of the lost city of Atlantis. In this piece, figures from antiquity are paired with modern construction imagery and fantastical sea creatures to evoke this mythical city. Deirdre’s work is at turns neoclassical and post apocalyptic, pairing everyday objects with fantastical creatures. She assembles toys, figurines and discarded objects, which in a new cohesive sculpture take on symbolic meanings as building blocks of a mythical world. By manipulating scale, color and context, Deirdre changes the objects’ significance and meaning; and injects mythological stories and allegorical themes. These stories and themes reemerge when a viewer creates their own mythological tale of the work’s creation.
