"Duinser Elegian" is my response to reading The Duino Elegies, by Ranier Marie Rilke. This same series of poems was the inspiration for the Wim Wenders film, "Wings of Desire". Both the film and my sculpture explore the relationship between angels and humans: the angels envy us because we have emotions, and we envy them because they are immortal. In this piece, the cool colors represent the angel, while the warm colors represent the human. Where the angel manages to briefly connect with the dreaming man, the angel's blue and the man's red blend into purple -- a hint of human feeling for the immortal one.
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| Duinser Elegian (detail) |
