Echoes of Amphora: 4/18

This sculpture made of horse chestnut burr was turned on a lathe, hollowed, sand-blasted and bleached. Part of the Echoes of Amphora series, it represents the tension between two perceptions or dimensions of time and beauty. On the one hand, there is the scale of human civilisation and culture, as well as the search for ultimate formal perfection, refinement and balance; on the other hand, there is the scale of geological and organic evolution, chaotic, vital, imperfect, partial, surging and disrupting the order.