“Creative Waves across Ripples in Time”
As previously hinted this work started with a life of it’s own so to speak, right from the first arc of the pencil
across the stone, with focus on the lower right corner as a start point, this seemed to be an obvious flow
outward based on the stone shape.
The idea of time had been in my mind, particularly the idea of discreet dollops of time created co-incident
with each particle of matter coming into existence. Not such a strange idea once the the blinkers of current
“science” are removed, teachings of dogma for the masses while the few brave scientific souls out there
explore the validity or not involved so let us not set anything in stone.
Ripples in Time is a simple enough concept and potentially a nice matrix for playing with light, and another
sculpture is born. Reality needs Time to play in and Time needs Reality to display it’s wares, it’s before’s and
after’s shall we say, we will ignore for the moment that we can only experience from somewhere beyond time
and in the moment at that, consciousness, home to reality.
Of course a close examination of this Reality of ours shows a propensity for the creative and the ever more
complex. Hmmmmmm Universe I name thee “Creative Complexity” so let’s keep this simple then :-)
Thus the sculpture needed a source for it’s waves of creative
consciousness to manifest from, and to my mind light is
representative of a state before the physical manifests and
thus a sun form seemed appropriate, a creative sun flower
radiating the cool power of endless growth and potential.
Something not quite in the ripples of time, yet embedded in
the fabric of creative consciousness, (represented by the body
of stone). The actual shapes involved required little
adjustment after the initial random flourish of pencil and from
then on it was simply attention to the pattern of light as i beat
upon the stone with hammer and chisel.
So this is how it first looked prior to it being weather sealed
and installed in the garden.
Once in the garden it became the property of those that view,
displaying varying degrees of subtly as the light changes
throughout the day, truly a sculpture in light rather than stone.
