AGING-I
Powder coated steel, paint, gold leaf
30” x 48” x 12”
In this sculpture I use the unyielding medium of steel to express the utterly vulnerable experience of aging.
Musical notes have fallen into a blackened pile… a way of visualizing something has died…in this case something that was valued. Five brightened contemporary forms rise from the jumble. One holds a golden ball. I am mindful of Jung’s thought that the challenge of aging is that we must adapt to inevitable change. “We cannot live the afternoon of life guided by the program of life’s morning.”
I envision this relatively large sculpture resting in an overgrown garden surrounded by foliage both alive and deadened. My hope is that its shimmer may attract the passerby to linger.
Martin Helldorfer
1936 –