Medium: graphite on archival paper
Dimensions: 15"x 12"x 3"
Price: $800.0
Description: When my twin boys were infants, I noticed on the wall, shadows of the oak tree that grew outside of their bedroom window. Because of the position of their cribs, I realized that their first visual experience of that tree was to be the shadows of branches on the wall. Immediately, Plato's Allegory of the Cave came to mind: the shadows would be their only reality of the tree, not the actual tree. If I were to photograph the shadows, this would move ever farther from the truth of the tree. And if I were to draw the photograph, I'd move further still. But as I moved away from the true nature of the tree, through my drawings, I could move closer to a new truth, perhaps the truth of the shadows themselves.
Echo of Being (Dawn) | 120710 -
