Sculptural Meditation on Mortality
MONDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2007
Tennessee, USA - Sculptor Steven Finke will feature his sculptural installations at Ruby Green this December. Finke drew his inspiration from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Buddhist text that serves as a guide to the transition from life to death. He’ll show portions of his installation, along with a series of meditation wands that are intended to help viewers understand and accept the terms of their own mortality. Finke calls his work as “an aesthetic meditation on impermanence.”
Finke says, “If I become engaged in a conversation about my work, people do find it to be morbid, off-putting, but once they experience the work, that fades away. I see this work as a series of mechanical meditative devices that the viewer interacts with. You have to be open to certain ideas to want to use the work, which is different from just viewing it.”
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