Fate and hope

Three-quarter life-size Bronze resin

A strong and gentle female figure contemplates a group of smaller figures. Her larger proportion in relation to the smaller group suggests greater forces like nature and time. In the smaller group a cadaver lies between two figures. One is a boy playing the violin, who can be seen, as an image of hope. The other one is a dwarf and represents fate that can be either magical or thwarted.

Playing

50 x 15 x 45cm Bronze

A man is weighed down by his troubles represented by the heads in a sack on his back. He is searching, to find an answer that is offered by the three heads on the ground, but he is moving away from it. On his shoulders another man is facing the answer and reaches towards it. This visionary man is either a separate figure or another aspect of the lower figure.

Man Bird & House

Fired clay, glaze

A simple man emerges through the roof of a house and looks straight ahead. In his hand he supports a large bird who is not in a hurry to fly. He doesn’t fit in this house, he has either outgrown it like a garment or he is in the wrong place. The birds are resting around the back of the house and maybe it is their home.

Top of the world

Clay with glaze

A man struggles feeling that he is supporting an existing world. A colleague stands on his shoulders and appears to be disappointed. On top of the world is another man, who sits (like Holbeins’ Christ), surveying his domain. After struggle and disappointment he contemplates his journey. Where will he go now, and what was the value of getting to the top?

Men birds and bird man

Bronze

A man who is unable to move faces a bird that is unable to fly, and they are bound, as if locked in checkmate. This evolved from a dream where covered in birds, I found I was both in command of them and trapped by them. I reversed the image and modelled the bird covered with small figures of a man. I made a larger man, though still smaller than the bird and covered him in birds.

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