Dichotomy
Original Year Completed: 2011
Separated: 2014
Dimensions: 16”h x 96”w x 16”d
Materials: Maple (one piece), wood stain
(Abstract Oil Painting by Leena S. Bud)
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The original intention of this piece was to interpret and explore interpersonal relationships.
Partners are intertwined, and 'balanced' yet there is always a dichotomy, a contrast of the opposites.
There is a dominant and a submissive. An aggressor and a victim.
The roles may shift, but they exist. Balance is give and take, not even-steven.
Interestingly, the natural "balance" of the sculpture forced the apparent aggressor – with teeth– to fall to the bottom and the apparent "scared" figure to float to the the top when balanced on the wire hangars.
As fate would have it—on the way back from the 2014 Westport Fine Arts Festival—Dichotomy split in two.
The were mounted separately, and although even more so diametrically opposed, they still have a balance and a connection together.
