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"This piece
was created to honor the 'Relationship', the opportunity to discover
and nourish a bond with another person. Before beginning the
material work, I meditated on how different spiritual and physical
elements converge and interact within a fulfilling loving relationship,
and how I might represent these ideas in the symbolic language
of sculpture.
"I began to see the piece in my mind as a story with movement
and drama, but a story without an ending. Two energies are born
into physical life. Separate and unaware of each other, they
begin their particular journeys, discovering the material and
the spiritual world around them, learning and preparing themselves
through their diverse experiences. This time before the opportunity
of a relationship presents itself is just as important as the
time in which the relationship eventually exists, for if one
or both of the individuals are unprepared for the experience,
the relationship may not fully manifest.
When the opportunity
does present itself, the life path of the individual lives intersect,
and here is, to me, a mystical event. The two lives still exist
as separate beings, but at the point where they intersect in
time and space, they become a third thing, another entity, a
relationship. The relationship continues even as the individual
lives continue, so that where there were two, now there are three.
The sculpture
is two-sided, meaning to represent the physical world on one
side and the spiritual on the other. This duality is most specifically
noted in the headdresses of the two figures. The night sky, full
of stars, represents that part of the universe which is untouchable
except through the spirit. The butterflies (feminine) and the
dragonflies (masculine) both experience a metamorphosis in life.
They represent the physical world, the earth on which we live.
The moon is another symbol of femininity, while the sun represents
masculinity.
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