In the
sculptor's words...
This sculpture was originally
created by Jeff in a monumental version called "Cycles" in
1976. So many people asked for a smaller, tabletop version of the monumental version
that he decided to make "Cycles Study I." The smaller version captures all
the dynamism of the monumental version.
In the sculptor's words...
This sculpture 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 a
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.
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