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This sculpture speaks to me in these turbulent times because its seems to suggest that we must aspire to peace with a willingness to guard and protect it once achieved. I sketched this scene in the summer of 2001 while visiting friends in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We called their home “the butterfly house” because the plants around it attracted a myriad of butterflies daily — remarkable for the desert habitat! Likewise, the final sculpture, finished in San Diego in 2006, seems a reminder that great beauty can blossom forth from a parched landscape |
Guardian of the Valley of Peace
The skeleton spirit conjured by the mouse-like shaman could represent the bones of a template for a future peaceful world. But without the guardian animal on the left to defend and protect this future, it will not survive.
We search for such a template just now: a resilient and positive strategy for enacting our future in a way that deflects and transcends divisive Internet memes.
Guardian of the Valley of Peace suggests that, to assure such a future, we must learn to re-direct contentious points of view into a new unity, much like Kung Fu masters use the aggressive strength of their opponents to their own advantage.
I hope this piece inspires you to develop a way to move forward with the grace and strength it will take to win a peaceful and stable future for all.
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