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The Sole Seed and the Space Ark (Wayne Ferrebee, 2019) Wood and Mixed Media
A month or so ago, I wrote a heartfelt post about humankind’s relationship with other living things and why I feel that our ultimate destiny lies beyond the Earth. I am still thinking about how to say that message with all of the grace and power I can muster. Everyone paying attention to current trends fears for the future of living things. As humankind’s appetites grow exponentially we are bringing terrifying changes. Yet humankind’s knowledge and abilities are growing too. I hope you will read the post…or at least its Biblical-themed follow-up concerning the art of Noah’s ark. in the meantime, I made a sculpture shaped like a flatfish to try to explain my conception in the non-linear language of symbols (coincidentally, flatfish are my symbol for Earth life with its hunger and deep beautiful sadness and with a known tendency to desperately snap at baited hooks). There is the tree of life sprouting anew out of a battered ark and spreading seeds upon the cosmic wind (or are those pink stars?). Above the ark is a mysterious figure which may be a symbol of our “life instinct” and our need to disseminate ourselves (or it may be a shrugging cartoonish new human–who can say?). Interred in the crypt beneath the universe is the inverse reflection of the life instinct: our Thanatos death instinct (for we take it with us always, no matter where we go). It is pictured as a strange human/lamprey mummy-thing writhing its gray fluke in its cramped chamber.
The cosmic fluke has a perplexed expression. Perhaps it is less sure than I about the wisdom of venturing out into the unknown. Or maybe it is just hungry…like all living things.
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