Becoming the Moose, Edition #6/30

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The iconic moose is considered one with its place on the earth. A fascinating cycle of birth, life, death, decomposition, and re-birth beholds this great species. This tickles at the seed of relationship. Where does wholeness start and end? Am I separate or one with my body, my family, my community, my town, my continent, my earth, my galaxy, my universe? Are we stitched together into oneness before we are born, after our bodies are gone, or life, the space between?
The moose draws your eyes around in an endless continual circle as oneness on the vessel. The splits and cracks symbolize the dichotomy of questions. How can a human feel like they don’t belong when everything else does? Do I become one at my birth, ego, life, death, decomposition, or conception? Is this life a linear or circular event? These seeds of musing consciousness are cast in “Becoming the Moose”, a bronze vessel that carries psychic fertilizer.
I mend these ideas back together from the past to the present. Wisdom from indigenous cultures sutured these concepts together long ago, as the circle of life, therefore, becoming one with the moose.