Blue Eyes with her New Orlean pearls, waiting for the dawn
Blue eyes was left at Cap Ferret, France.
“I would go walking on this beach every day and there are these huge old bunkers from WW2 – they were built by the nazi’s when France was occupied in the 1940’s.
There were a few reasons i left her there – something about the collapse of something that seems so solid – that everything given time can errode, and this can seem scary for good things but for me it had hope – like, we all have murky pasts, but with time (and fresh ocean air) nothing is permanent – even the nazi’s.
It’s like not ignoring the past but not letting it be real and changing in the future.
Also all the other bunkers along the beach have graffitt all over them – which i thought was fitting. I chose my favorite bunker – the one that looks like it is caught in motion falling down the dunes.”
About graffittigranny
I am sending these sculptures out into the world to have a dialogue with those interested in some of the existential questions like what are we all doing here? and what is the meaning of our existence if any? Each sculpture has a" twin". One twin stays at home under the safety of a somewhat boring bland roof of a dolls house found in hard rubbish. The other is left out in the world somewhere with a poem to engage you in these questions of our existence and our memories. Which existence is better? Is there such a thing as a better life?
The poems are sometimes in French because the Xmas fortune cookie said " The sum of human knowledge is not contained in any one language."
I hope over time a dialogue might begin where the sculptures create a means for us to relate in the quiet of the blog site. What this dialogue will mean or not is yet to be revealed!