Decay
Black Granite 250cms
The ferryman’s craft lies dead in the water. He can no
longer reach the ‘other’ shore. Unable to touch, he can't make
real, he dies.
The sculpture represents the internal state of the
disconnected
human. Because reality happens as after-affect of
momentary
contact, loss of connectivity (i.e. of touch) brings with it not only
decay of
the sense of realness (i.e. of being), but also of consciousness (i.e.
of
relativity) and the joy derived from it.
Disconnection is
inevitable because
connection is
momentary,
therefore not conserved. For a human to stay alive, i.e. to be real,
conscious
and joyful (i.e. self-realized), she must continuously touch or be
touched.
Only an ‘other’ can touch.
In the case of the ferryperson, his/her death is voluntary. He/she is
prepared to remain in situ to allow others to pass over him/her so that
they might rech their goal. In short, the end of a truly spiritual
life is a sacrificial death.
The human who stands still, who holds,
decays and dies.