2001 06.00 SOUL OF A TREE sculpture BALTIMORE Co. CORK (IRE) Glabe Gallery and Gardens
TOTEM
The sculpture “Soul of a Tree” had been created in context for the Glabe Gallery and Gardens in Baltimore, Co. Cork, inspired to an enormous pine tree on site which had fallen down on the ground, cause of the strong wind.
A special example of fight between elements.
The concept is the development of a previous experiment with jars, already exhibited in Sculpture in Context in year 2000.
Here I try to apply the unit of drilled jar with a new material, the wood:
The function of the jars, here, is, so, no more urban nor industrial, but symbolic and archetype as clear containers.
This sort of clear bone spine is created with a glass column of jars connected each other as vertebras by wood dowels and hand-crafted brass junctions.
Involving concepts of spirituality, fragility, and protection as main feelings.
The sculpture is high 2,50 mt and it is made of
a base of a tree, a column of drilled glass jars with tin leads , wood dawels. brass joints
E.J. McBett 9th April 2002
The sculpture “Soul of a Tree” had been created in context for the Glabe Gallery and Gardens in Baltimore, Co. Cork, inspired to an enormous pine tree on site which had fallen down on the ground, cause of the strong wind.
A special example of fight between elements.
The concept is the development of a previous experiment with jars, already exhibited in Sculpture in Context in year 2000.
Here I try to apply the unit of drilled jar with a new material, the wood:
The function of the jars, here, is, so, no more urban nor industrial, but symbolic and archetype as clear containers.
This sort of clear bone spine is created with a glass column of jars connected each other as vertebras by wood dowels and hand-crafted brass junctions.
Involving concepts of spirituality, fragility, and protection as main feelings.
The sculpture is high 2,50 mt and it is made of
a base of a tree, a column of drilled glass jars with tin leads , wood dawels. brass joints
E.J. McBett 9th April 2002
