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In the sculptor's
words...
This was inspired by
writings of Joseph Campbell, a leading world mythologer. In his book, "The Masks of
God", he talks of Egyptian mythology, about Horus being the deified embodiment of
Pharaoh and he being the creator of all things. It created images of which came first, the
chicken or the egg. I took that concept and combined it with Neolithic fertility figure,
the "Venus of Willendorf". The huge breasts and thighs were kept but I
eliminated the shoulders and made the neck and breasts a phallic image, so each figure
fits up into the vagina of the figure before it. It becomes cyclic conception in one
direction and cyclic birth in the other; depending on whether you see the figures going
into or coming out of each other. The negative space in the middle is a pinwheel; a
mandala, a wheel of life. It is the four seasons, one thing coming from the next, round
and round. Again, the theme of creativity. A use of sex as a reference to basic creative
drives.
Fiberglass Prototype
for Bronze, Edition limited to 3, 60" diameter
For information on this sculpture,
please
call 530-268-1048
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