As we experience one of the most divided nations during my lifetime and are now nearing an election which has the potential to make it worse and as we experience the loss of our face-to-face connections with others due to Covid 19, fire, and hurricane disruption; I sense a deep yearning for bridging the gaps between us. So I have chosen a piece this month that invites connection between those with whom we appear to have profound differences.
On the Brink of Convergence
I picked this piece because it has the sort of positivity we need right now.Its history also shows how typically my insights with these worksoccur over decades not years.The sketch for this work was completed in March 2003 in an Encinitas, CA cafe while my wife was attending a yoga workshop. As wilth many of my sketches I did not get around to selecting it for a clay-relief until 2010. It remained unnamed for a several years after its creation. In 2014 I moved from San Diego to Santa Cruz and began participating in their Open Studios program in the fall of 2017. The piece was first shown at my first Santa Cruz Open Studios in the fall of that year, seven years later when its name also emerged from one of the attendants, Beverly DesChaux, who had a strong relationship to the piece. She first suggested the name of Psyche Breathes Life connected to the Greek myth dabout eternal love; but, later changed it to Life Breathing Into Itself which rang truer to me since there is a wind or breath that seems to flow through this piece perking up the rabbits ear, ruffling the ocean waters, and carryihg the sacred messenger on her task of spreading the eternal love of Psyche and Eros. I hope it inspries your own inspiration from what you love.
