JUNE 2024
TRANSCENDENT, umbrella stands
The
"Transcendent" series of umbrella stands, made of stainless steel
wire and sheet metal, and milled solids, also in stainless steel, certainly
fulfil a function, but aspire to go beyond it.
Sculptural
forms that discreetly occupy a small part of the space and offer themselves to
observation, always changing as the cue for observation changes.
The
fluidity of the forms is certainly reminiscent of the fluidity of water but,
like rain, is intended to express a possibility of connection between heaven
and earth.
Works
of art - design rather than design, these objects were created as part of the
author's academic research into the many distinctive features that characterize
design and art in different ways.
While
design expresses a secular and usually perfect adherence to secular reality,
art always expresses, if not always explicitly, a yearning to suggest and
accommodate a higher, sacred and spiritual dimension.