Sacred Water

Title: 'Sacred water'
Bronze and resin
16cm x 6cm
Limited edition: /11

Water shapes our world and our realities within it. It carries life and death in its currents. We can be engulfed and destroyed in its volume, and we can be saved by a droplet. This same stuff that stretches from India to Chile can be gathered up in the palm of a hand or the hollow of a navel. This is what makes it a thing divine. It is a tangible expression of the infinite, a small piece of Spirit that we can manipulate and make our own. Dipping beneath waters dark and wild; bringing a glass transparent and sparkling to our lips; raising our faces skyward to the storm; sneaking searching fingers toward personal hidden springs - these are ways to know God. They are pathways towards everything that is. The sacred thrives in the mundane, resting just beyond our fingertips, just beyond the sensual. There lies what is holy.

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Across millennia and cultures, the four natural elements appear and re-appear in our most sacred prayers and rituals. They go beyond the form of the ceremonial rites designed by each culture to reach something deep within us. They are access points to the infinite. Creating a bridge between us and the world that embraces us, these elements evoke the general in the specific. Bronze, itself a child of all four elements, is the perfect medium for this series which begs to be touched and held as the viewer contemplates the divine through the tangible.