A new one for 2019, I started this last year but abandoned it when I lost focus on what I was doing with it. I finally got to work on it after staring at it for a couple of months on my work table and formulating ideas. Getting into the proper headspace and listening to some Jazz, specifically Ike Quebec and Pharaoh Sanders, which is new to me.
This piece is 24" x9"x7" and is cobbled together with a variety of found wood from the swap meet and beach flotsam, metal, rubber squares, glass, an assortment of old paper found at the swap meet, the image of the man on the top of the sculpture is a glass negative I found broken at the swap meet for $1. I used acrylic paint, paint pens, pencil for mark making and a bit of collage to complete this piece.
The words I wrote for it and gave me the final idea to complete the sculpture are:
The search for your invisible heart has been plagued as I drift from one outpost to another.
I remember sitting next to you the man who called me son,
your hands clasped as if in prayer, the wooden hands of an idol.
When I stumbled upon your crumbling body,
When I stumbled upon your crumbling body,
that monument of pain,
I dug into your heart and found an empty mine, it's treasures looted and buried in time.
