"....it's funny how people can leave your life but stay in your dreams...."
Not long now...
A short thanks to all those who've helped of late.
What with moving house, the respective rebuilding of said house, new childcare arrangements and all the other challenges of life that are thrown in to entertain, things have been busy and chaotic.
However, there are sculptures in the pipeline once more, so with luck, we'll have some new pieces on here in the new year (or sooner) .....
What with moving house, the respective rebuilding of said house, new childcare arrangements and all the other challenges of life that are thrown in to entertain, things have been busy and chaotic.
However, there are sculptures in the pipeline once more, so with luck, we'll have some new pieces on here in the new year (or sooner) .....
Imprisoned
The struggle between the ties of life and the
draw of love can be a powerful one, and this sculpture represents
that struggle of being enchained by the course of life, by fate, and
once settled in that life, being unable to realise the true love when
found outside of that life.
Rather than unrequited, this love is
confined, restrained by the complexities of situation, it is alive
with power and depth of emotions within, but ultimately...in the end,
the love remains imprisoned...
As with the “Search” sculpture, the
heart is made from a solid billet of steel, hand sculpted to the form
of a heart that appears strangled and choked. Again, the
surface has been hammered over its entire surface to provide the
finish. The chain is a find from a barn in Wales, the tie a hand
forged band allowed to rust, and the base a piece of drift wood from a
beach on the south of England.
Strength in Simplicity
Simplicity in art brings with it an
immense strength, and the more powerful the subject matter of that art,
the more overwhelming it becomes in its simplest form....
(photo - Donald Kinney)
Here is a sculpture by George Segal - Holocaust Memorial
at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
The holocaust subject matter deserves the utmost respect, and needs little further comment, what is striking is the way all the emotions are so intensely conveyed by such a simple piece.
Search
This piece portrays the difficulties of
finding true love, the endless, often fruitless search for the one
that unlocks the heart. The keys depict the relationships that did
not fulfil, the people that did not bring the love desired...and as
the heart continues the search, and life goes by, the heart remains
empty, un-fulfilled, lonely in a crowd...
The centre piece is made from a solid
billet of steel, sculpted by hand to shape the heart, and hammered
over its entire surface to give the warm, evocative surface finish.
The key escutcheon is pewter, riveted in place over the key hole.The
keys themselves come from many months of collecting, and waiting for
the elements to age them.
The End
The 3rd piece (earlier pieces being "Unrequited" and "Lost" ) in a long term series exploring the concept of love.
Love is often portrayed as the ultimate pleasure, a thing to strive for and cherish, yet in reality, it has a darkness and with that darkness come morose and sometimes threatening emotions as life plays out around it.
This piece depicts the shattering effect of the end, of the loved one walking away, the confirmation that the love is gone, and the devastating effect that has - the heart has lost all life, all the energy has gone - it is dust, it is dead.
The piece is constructed of a heart shape cut from a wood, which was then burnt in a fire and carefully laid on the background for capture - keeping the heart in one piece and preventing pieces blowing away was quite a challenge, although ironically, this too exactly reflects another aspect of what the piece is portraying.
Further pieces to follow explore the emotions of love further, with two more sculptures (in my more ususal medium of steel) due in the next few weeks - look out for them on the web site at www.haich.co.uk
Love is often portrayed as the ultimate pleasure, a thing to strive for and cherish, yet in reality, it has a darkness and with that darkness come morose and sometimes threatening emotions as life plays out around it.
This piece depicts the shattering effect of the end, of the loved one walking away, the confirmation that the love is gone, and the devastating effect that has - the heart has lost all life, all the energy has gone - it is dust, it is dead.
The piece is constructed of a heart shape cut from a wood, which was then burnt in a fire and carefully laid on the background for capture - keeping the heart in one piece and preventing pieces blowing away was quite a challenge, although ironically, this too exactly reflects another aspect of what the piece is portraying.
Further pieces to follow explore the emotions of love further, with two more sculptures (in my more ususal medium of steel) due in the next few weeks - look out for them on the web site at www.haich.co.uk
Nature in chains
Found today on a beach in North Wales,
here's some debris that struck me.
It's a piece of chain from the remnants
of a 19th century mining operation that has spent much of
its life in the jaws of the Irish Sea.
As is often the case, the forces of
nature have turned something quite mundane into something quite
beautiful, somehow adding to it rich colour renders and wonderful
textures.
The chain is now tightly wrapped and tied around itself, in one solid lump.
More poigniant perhaps is chains are almost a contronym, they are
loose, flexible devices, perfectly free in movement, yet in history
have been often used to confine, constrain and imprison – ironic
then that nature in this instance has had the ability to combine both
elements into this one beautiful piece.