Another note
A Comment from a Gallery Experience
“I’ve Seen Its Eyes”
This person, a young European traveler, had been sketching in the gallery.
She came into my studio.
“I’ve seen its eyes,” she said.
“Which sculpture?” I inquired.
“The one with the canoe,” she replied.
“I’ve never seen its eyes,” I said, “please show me.”
She led me to the gallery.
I saw its eyes for the first time.
I requested,
“Will you please write a note about your experience?”
She wrote.
“As I stayed with you for a long time,
sitting on the floor, trying to draw you,
you appeared, slowly, shy.
Scared but curious, you look at me.
I don’t move, fixed in this moment.
Now I know you are alive, and with the depth of your eyes,
you just want to connect with me.
What I feel, you feel.
Maybe we are the same.
We just have to be born a second time (transformation)
to be confident, and express our feelings and our thinking.
With the life you had, you will be my teacher.
I want to learn about you. Just tell me…
We don’t need to speak.
We just look at each other.”
Christine
Transformation
Days pass
In the sculpture, expressed within what I interpret as the spiritual realm of the sculpture, not only is everyone connected, also there is a blending where one human form is another, then part of another. The forms are subtle. I am wondering if other viewers will see those forms.
I am finding this sculpture to be personally provocative.