In the
sculptor's words...
"Cycles" 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.
|
