“Waters of Light and Life”

This work is sculpted from a smallish slab of Oamuru Stone, which as it happens, is a particularly good choice for the subject matter. Oamaru Stone was laid down in warm seas some 40 odd million years ago and is known for the occasional penquin bone fossil, whale bones, earlier life of the nautical variety. Keywords being sea and life. I was contemplating specifically the local stream life in all it’s abundance and how well it was doing despite earlier disruptions through man’s hunt for gold and wood and......... The symbolism will be becoming obvious to you by now in that this piece has flowing water forms as a feature, sand ripples with a waveform, shall we say the sea. The ‘Tuna’ or ‘Eels’ are creatures of water and are well able to leave it and cross land, (that’s how they get into the ponds here), they grow up in the NZ streams and rivers then when of age they migrate to the seas to breed. Spanning these are beams of light shining out from a source beyond ‘creation’ and so being an implicit aspect of the ‘creative force’ (the light doing the work), overarching within the whole of creation. The ‘Trinity’ can be implied here as well, a Trinity ripe with the potential of unfoldment. As usual it is a work of many layers rife with ambiguity, no truths to teach just a recognition of ones own unfoldment to wonder.