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Seized by the Mystery -from the "Jacob Wrestling" series Sculpture

Tim Holmes

United States

Sculpture, Bronze on Bronze

Size: 12 W x 10 H x 12 D in

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The biblical legend of Jacob wrestling with the angel becomes an increasingly poignant metaphor for me. Every conflict begins to look like that legendary one, with its many implications. Inevitably, I am wounded in the fight and will limp ever after. But it's not until later that I realize that I wasn't really wrestling with another person or circumstance as much as with some spiritual creature, and that I, too, have been thereby strangely blessed. This bronze focuses on a secret whispered into the ear of Jacob by the angel, who has him by the throat. I have 30 designs for sculptures illuminating various aspects of this archetypal conflict with God. This sculpture is one of 6 different bronzes completed to date.

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Sculpture:Bronze on Bronze

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12 W x 10 H x 12 D in

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Born 1955 in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Tim Holmes is the first American artist ever invited to exhibit solo at the world's largest art museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his sculptures remain on permanent exhibit. He has created sculpture for some of the world's peacemaking organizations from the United Nations to the Chinese dissident students of Tiananmen Square. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Jimmy Carter, President Vaclav Havel, and Coretta Scott King are among Holmes' best-known collectors. Holmes has created many international projects such as the U.N. Peace Prize for Women and other peace awards. He has worked with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in creating a monument for the international peace center on Robben Island, the gulag where President Nelson Mandela and thousands of other South Africans were imprisoned during the dark apartheid years. He's also made the sculpture intended as focus piece for Cape Town's bid for the Olympics. Though Holmes is most well known for sculpture he has worked in a variety of media from museum installations to films for creative social transformation. His award-winning series of Body Psalms films focuses on the value of the body in capitalist culture and often appears at special screenings- frequently outside art and theater settings- in the US and Europe. He's a founding member of the Montana Logging and Ballet Co., National Public Radio's "resident political satirists" during the Clinton presidency and has served on the Montana Arts Council.

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