As much as I dislike posting things that have gotten too much attention around the Web already, every time I see Paige Bradley’s Expansion sculpture, I’m re-captivated.
This piece contains such harmony of design, medium and message. It is a woman meditating in lotus position. Realizing that fine-tuned figure work had lost its sway in the art world in recent years, Bradley literally LET GO of the piece, willingly allowing it shatter. She then cast it in bronze and arranged for the inner lighting fixtures.
The very act of meditating involves releasing the structures we create and being open to what emerges from within. I can think of no better way to demonstrate that concept artistically.
Let this be a lesson to us all to let things crack and open to expansion when the time is right. Sometimes we have to release our own rigid structures, no matter how long we’ve worked to cultivate and perfect them (I personally have enjoyed some of my finest moment when dropping some of my own stubbornness!). We never know what light lurks beneath the surface.
SheWalksSoftly 