Moving Forward, Looking Backward, 2011 - 2012

Metal, Styrofoam, cement, rustable paint

12 feet high, 5 feet wide, with axle about 16 feet long

This sculpture is based on a specific artifact from ancient China and deals with my understanding of time as a continuum. As our future unfolds, our past recedes at an equal rate. Humans carry the past forward while animals are totally engaged in the present. This sculpture consists of three elements, a wagon, a human figure and an animal – in a stylized but recognizable shape.

It deals metaphorically with the human desire to keep time and make sense of it – and the necessity to do so.

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