HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
Found objects, copper
Site specific, 2007
This sculpture was my first reaction to visiting the farm. The materials were found in field and trash heap. The assemblage joins the remains of nature’s products with the decay of human production. Both suggest obsolescence, yet the former was destroyed before its own natural cycle had come to a close. We can discard our own trifles, but can we continue to indiscriminately destroy nature’s growth, development, and recycling. The work is, in part, a paean to that irrational, yet ever-present beacon of light, hope. But it is also rumination on that light’s dim power and blind attitude midst a fragile world.
David Duckworth
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