Deborah Pieritz

Deborah Pieritz

  • Tall
    • For the Birds
    • Without Weight Without Measure
    • A Midwestern Prayer Wheel
    • Fisher/Fissure
    • Zig Zag
    • The Gravity of Geometry
    • A Run-On Sentence Structure
  • Small
    • An Expansion of Possibilities at the End of the Block
    • Forty-Four Four Letter Floors
    • A Little Matter of Perspective
    • The Old Neighborhood
    • Weeble Wobble
    • A Midwestern Milagro
    • Farm Girl
  • Wall
    • Pay Attention
    • Additions and Subtractions
    • Another Arrangement of Elementary Particles
    • My Poedic Table of Elementary Relations
    • Round the Blockness
    • Mandalable Americanable
    • Road Trip
  • Words
    • Statement and Bio
  • Deeds
    • Little Garage 2020-2023

My Poedic Table of Elementary Relations


2005 wood, found materials

8” x 11” x 1” (each piece)

nine of 103 pieces


The conception of this work came about after flipping back and forth between the words “eclipse” and “ellipse” in the dictionary, trying to grasp the sameness and difference of those words. Between the two, I came upon an entry for “the Periodic Table of Elements.” The chemical elements, the source material for the universe, became a very peripheral structure for my version of “elements,” the source material for my work.I think about words and objects and ideas as particles floating/ bumping in space. This project is a natural extension of that thought process.