Artist Information:
Mark Renaud
St.Thomas,
Canada
Member Since: Feb 2007
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Artist Statement:
Title..."Hope in Desperation"
This unique tree represents
the artist's reflections on
his own life by using nature
and his lifelong fasination
with tress in an analogy
towards the similarities
between the human spirit and
that of the spirit found
around us in nature.
Special attention was given in
selecting the stone mount for
the tree. The artist felt that
the mount must define a
weather-torn, barren,
non-fertile and isolated
location to parallel the
feelings he was experiencing
in his surrounding at the time
he concieved this sculpture.
(this stone has been dated at
being 450 million years old by
some of the fossils found
embedded in it)
Choosing to work with copper
as the base, limbs and leaves
was mainly due to the
metaphysical and physical
properties of copper as being
a conductor of energy. The
artist believes that just as
copper is a conductor of
energy so are we as human
beings. The leadcoating on the
bas and limbs of the tree is a
protective shell, protecting
the tree from the elements and
environment much the same as
we as human beings wear masks
create walls for protect from
our environment, to protect
our inner-...
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Title..."Hope in Desperation"
This unique tree represents the artist's reflections on his own life by using nature and his lifelong fasination with tress in an analogy towards the similarities between the human spirit and that of the spirit found around us in nature.
Special attention was given in selecting the stone mount for the tree. The artist felt that the mount must define a weather-torn, barren, non-fertile and isolated location to parallel the feelings he was experiencing in his surrounding at the time he concieved this sculpture. (this stone has been dated at being 450 million years old by some of the fossils found embedded in it)
Choosing to work with copper as the base, limbs and leaves was mainly due to the metaphysical and physical properties of copper as being a conductor of energy. The artist believes that just as copper is a conductor of energy so are we as human beings. The leadcoating on the bas and limbs of the tree is a protective shell, protecting the tree from the elements and environment much the same as we as human beings wear masks create walls for protect from our environment, to protect our inner-... |
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