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The Blind Hadeda Sculpture

Salome Delport

South Africa

Sculpture, Clay on Ceramic

Size: 5 W x 14 H x 6 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The Blind Hadeda is about embracing the future in your own authentic way, What does the future hold, now? We cannot know. Yet we dream, and every day, like the Phoenix, we rise with the hope that it will be good. The Ancient Greeks borrowed the concept of the Phoenix from an even more ancient people, the Egyptians. Their Phoenix was the revered hadeda of Africa, a bird I know very well. The hadeda, which pairs for life and leaves the nest at sunrise only to return at sunset, represented love and industriousness - the source of wisdom and the best possible assurance for a happy future, the Egyptians believed. The hadeda in this sculpture is blind - a metaphor for our inability to know the future. Nesting, nurturing, protecting and tending to our life work is the only true authentic human route to wisdom that we have. This sculpture is in fired stone, which is left raw, with only a light wax.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Sculpture:

Clay on Ceramic

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

5 W x 14 H x 6 D in

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I love creating sculptures that tell stories - stories of heroes and heroines, of places, eras, hopes, dreams and freed imaginations, with an iconography of ladders and stars and flowers and lips and hands and gold and leaves and birds and muscles and apples and lambs. I hope that when you choose to put one of my sculptures into your personal and work space it will add its presence and meaning to your life - that it will feel like sharing your home with a companion or even a trusted friend with whom you will have continual conversations about your life. How extraordinary it would be if we could share these conversations - me with you about the stories when it took form, and you with me about the stories you share with the form of the work! Even if we cannot share these conversations, I do hope these sculptures will resonate with the stories of your life. Above all, I hope it will lead to a celebration of life for you, because life is beautiful, and strong, and fragile, and transient, and enduring, and poetic, and crude, and immense and obscure and superficial and intense. It is all of everything. (And we have the privilege of having it internally, and being part of the eternality of it!) I work in fired terracotta. (Formally: My materials and technique appropriates the poetic form of the classical style of sculpture, often with color added as comment.)

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