To Kill Artemis

The Callanish stones, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland.

Venus Italica, Antonio Canova

(via Herbert James Draper/ Emile-Jean-Baptiste Philippe Bin | Frank T. Zumbachs Mysterious World)

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Joseph Walsh: Lillium I

In the Lilium series, Joseph Walsh expands on the formation and layering language of his Enignum series and once again refers to natural elements that inspire his work.

Lilium explores the relationship between the geometric and the organic; while some of the pieces’ elements keep to symmetrical repetitions, others erupt into glorious, abstract shape.

The finished pieces blur the line between still and living objects, while capturing the natural instincts for growth in the material, the maker and the viewer. They mimic nature’s patterns, beginning with a cohesive bulb / form and growing according to diverse set of circumstances. In this work, Joseph finds the piece’s forms by following the curve of the wood so that the sculpture evolves from a structured, predictable object into a freely flowing work.

“In ‘Lilium’ I explore the relationship between the ordered and chaotic; the geometric and the lyrical; the perfect, effortless symmetry of the bulb, the regulated, controlled element and its freed form as it reaches through and beyond. The Lilium series is both a study and an expression of the relationship between the beauty we create and the beauty we allow to happen; the beauty we participate in creating and the beauty we quietly observe.”

Corinthian Capital - Architectural Detail.

Kedleston Hall. Derbyshire. England.

The Triumph of Venice.  1737.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni. Italian 1708-1787. oil/canvas.