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Robert A.Hefner III Collection, Aspen, USA
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FORCE OF FREEDOM
HEIGHT 11FT (3.5M)
STAINLESS STEEL
1995
"This sculpture has been renamed Force of Freedom as a tribute
to the everlasting memory of all those who had their lives snatched
from them by the dark forces of bigotry in the attack on the United
States of America, September 11th, 2001"
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I suppose that because I spend so much of my day thinking about
sculpture, it is natural that I should also dream about it. I
awoke from a dream in which I was standing in front of this sculpture.
I got up and went down to my study, and made it in cardboard.
The sculpture represents Gravity and Centrifugal force meeting
at the surface of the Earth, where the evolution of life has taken
place. Imagine my delight when I found that where the forces met,
they formed a rhombus, the symbol that we believe our Celtic ancestors
used for fertility ( see Celtic Petroglyphs ).
My friend and patron, Robert A.Hefner III, had been telling me
about the amazing amounts of bacteria he has found up to 3 miles
below the earth's surface, when drilling for gas and oil. Life
exists not only on the surface of the planet but for miles below.
In my mind I see the East-West horizon of the rhombus as the surface
of the earth,the home of evolution, and the North-South as the
air and the mantle, both full of life.
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