aureole

A dark, phallic figure 14 inches high, it had three poked-in divots for eyes and a mouth and was surrounded by a pinched circle of clay that could have been a kind of ersatz sacred grotto or aureole or the figure’s own upraised arms.

With the Taylor company, he was in the original cast of “Scudorama,” “Orbs” and “Aureole,” a now-classic work that retains a portrait of his character in its happy hopping.

Eve’s long, spiraling strands of hair blow out into a radiant aureole behind her shapely body, as if it were a starburst halo framing a divinity.

Like his crossed legs, Cannon’s head and upper torso are framed in flickering swipes of green, as if this is a depiction of a holy man surrounded by an incandescent aureole.

And everything is framed by an aureole of crisp fern leaves reaching to the canvas’s edges — a many-pointed crown.