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Gathering Garden

by Deborah Rael-Buckley

web # 7599

Sculpture

Ceramic, Oxides, Glazes, Acrylic and Brass Nails

36"h x 12"w x 10"d

Sometimes a sculpture begins as one idea and after it is finished I can see other meanings not prevoiusly intended, but valid. In this chair form, my intention was to just make a beautiful memory of spring, which was long in arriving this year. So I made this chair as if I were on a long walk through garden of hollyhocks and happend to sit there and enjoy them, but after I finished this piece I realized the dual metaphor of the chair and the hollyhock.... are flowers associated with fertility, because of the prodigious seeds they throw to the wind, and that they are known to grow anywhere- not in the wild, but in and near cultivated gardens, but often in the cracks of sidewalks and in alleyways and with very little water or care. So I take this as a metaphor for being overtaken by hollyhocks, that I am being overtaken by the persistance of a life force that needs no encouragement or careing, but persists by its sheer will and anatomy.